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The Heritage India Series. Classical Sanskrit Literature

1923

The nearest parallel to these works is to be found in the aristocratic literature of Greece the Iliad and the Odyssey the fine flower not of village life but of the Courts of the great princes of the Aegean. [...] We have in the Reimayazza a similar distinction drawn between the correct speech of the Brahmin and the less precise language of an ordnary man who uses Sanskrit.' In Pataiijali we have the well-known anecdote of the grammarian and the charioteer who dispute over the etymology of his title &Cita and the correctness of the formation of the word Ortaiitr driver. [...] Yet they deviate from the norm here and there in accordance with the epic ; there are occasional cases of confusion of the active and the middle of the verb ; of the gerund in Iva and that in ya ; of the present participle active in anti and that in ati.2 Kälidasa among minor slips in gramar is responsible for the use of asa in lieu of babhiiva and of sarati in place of did-wall. [...] From the opening of the poem with its description of the city the king and the queen to the end of the text we are entirely in the world of the later Kavya save in its religious aspect. [...] The Krzmasiitra3 is also of importance since it preserves to us the picture of the ancient prototype of the man about town (nagaraka) whose tastes and habits so largely inspire the literature of the period and who is as typical of it as is the priest or the phildsopher of the literature of the Brahmanas and Upanisads.
literature fiction
Pages
156
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141767
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-6 A.Barriedale Keith view
I Classical Sanskrit
7-21 unknown view
II The Predecessors of Kalidasa
22-30 unknown view
III Kalidasa
31-48 unknown view
IV Post-Kalidasan Epic
49-60 unknown view
V Historical Kavya
61-69 unknown view
VI The Prose Romance and the Campo
70-88 unknown view
VII The Popular Tale
89-101 unknown view
VIII The Didactic Fable
102-113 unknown view
IX Lyric and Gnomic Verse
114-128 unknown view
X Theories of Poetry
129-144 unknown view
Index
145-154 unknown view

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