Although Rājaśekhara’s use of language is well-trodden ground for scholars, further analysis based on his Karpūramañjarī and Kāvyamīmāṃsā may still contribute to our understanding of his poetic theory. The Kāvyamīmāṃsā and the Karpūramañjarī probably comprise Rājaśekhara’s (9th–10th c.) latest works; therefore, they represent the outcome of a lifelong cultivation of expertise in poetics on the part of this liberal theoretician-poet and independent thinker. Although he does not give any rationale for the choice of language—namely Prakrit—in his Karpūramañjarī, all of the relevant clues can be traced in his Kāvyamīmāṃsā, and some even in his earlier works. Furthermore, the Karpūramañjarī itself contains some verses and passages that express the author’s ideas on poetics, which are worth examining on the basis of the Kāvyamīmāṃsā. Understanding Rājaśekhara’s treatment of mārgas and rītis, as he outlines in his Kāvyamīmāṃsā, can lead to a clearer comprehension of his theory of language as applied in the Karpūrama