[1] A Chitra-kāvya is created by composing a piece of verse specially designed to be fitted in a visual pattern or geometric arrangements; the reading of the verse is governed by the nature of the pattern used and can be read in different ways.
[2] Chitra-kāvyas provided inspiration to the writers and vaggeyakaras to model their works on similar lines.
It influenced the development of the uparupaka forms in the succeeding period, and occupies a key position in the history of music and dance.
[4] The Chitra-kāvyas aim to generate a sense of wonder by resorting to unusual management of certain meters, innovative poetic structures, designs or patterns resembling objects or their movements that one commonly sees in life, so as to evoke poetic or emotive images where sounds of syllables and letters take a visible form.
Sitāharana of Nārayana, one of the notable Yamaka-kāvya writers of Kerala, is written on the model of Yudhisthiravijaya of Vasudeva.