Abstract
The Hāla’s Sattasaī and the Amaruśataka are two well known anthologies of muktaka poetry. Vemabhūpāla, commentator of the 15th c., wrote a commentary on each work. This paper compares the two commentaries Śṛṅgāradīpikā and Bhāvadīpikā, and giving examples from the two texts, highlights the differences of treatment of each one. It shows that a medieval Indian commentator did not use a comparative method, but on the contrary, gave a separate treatment to each of his works, privileging a classificatory or an interpretative approach, depending on the nature of the text, the way of writing of his contemporaries and his own aspirations.