This lecture presents the thesis that Sanskrit kāvya rapidly developed on account of a specific political plan. Sanskrit was chosen as the perfect laudatory language at the imperial court. In fact, in Indian thinking features of the Veda and the Vedic language – being above all a real and sacred force in action, rather than merely referential – were absorbed by the Sanskrit language. Sanskrit thus became the foundational language par excellence and was the most suitable language to establish the new world of the supranational power shaped by the Indian emperors of foreign origin. Thus the kavis became the true heirs of the ṛṣis inasmuch as they inherited from them the function of being founders of the world as well as the instrument employed in founding the world, namely, the sacred language. The spreading of kāvya and its success were bound up not only with imperial sponsorship, but also with the use of writing because the Sanskrit of kāvya substantially depended on writing. The stability achieved by the writing of kāvya corresponded perfectly to the completeness of the description of the Sanskrit language by the grammarians.