Rājaśekhara Yāyāvarīya (10th century CE) in his Enquiry into Poetry

(Kāvyamīmāṃsā) appropriates Ānandavardhana’s theorizations on imitatio in the

Light on Suggestion (Dhvanyāloka). He conceives a framework of four modes of
semantic appropriation (arthaharaṇa), viz. “mirror-image” (pratibiṃbakalpa),
“copy-sketch” (ālekhaprakhya), “physical equivalence” (tulyadehitulya) and “like
entering a foreign city” (parapurapraveśasadṛśa), with eight sub-types in each
mode totaling to thirty-two modes, a grammatico-semantic paradigm of
computing the diverse and complex transformational formulae of imitatio,
variatio, dissimulatio and transmutatio whereby successor-poets engage with the
models of their precursor-poets. See Kulkarni 1983, Lath 1984, Parashar 2000.