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A History of Sanskrit Literature

1909

Thus in the course of the Vedic age Aryan civilisation had overspread the whole of Hindiistan Proper the vast tract extending from the mouths of the Indus to thOse of the Ganges hounded on the north by the Himalaya and on the south by the Vindhya range. [...] The almost incredible development of detail in ritual observance ; the extrordinary excesses of asceticism ; the grotesque represetations of mythology in art ; the frequent employment of vast numbers in description ; the immense bulk of the epics ; the unparalleled conciseness of °tie of the forma of prose ; the huge compounds habitually employed in the later style are among the more striki [...] The linguistic importance of the ancient literary speech for the India of to-day will become apparent when it is pointed out that all the modern dialects—excepting those of a few isolated aboriginal hill tribes—spoken over the whole vast territory between the mouths of the Indus and those of the Ganges between the Himalaya and the Vindhya range besides the Bombay Presidency as far south as the P [...] The I3rAlima9as of the Sdiluz-veda are concerned only with the duties of the udgatri or "chanter" of the Samans ; the Brahmanas of the Yajur-reda with those of the adlevalyu or the priest who is the actual sacrificer. [...] Again the Brahmanas of the Rigveda more or less follow the order of the ritual quite irrespectively of the succession of the hymns in the Veda itself.
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Pages
481
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145400
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Frontmatter
i-ix Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter I. Introductory
1-28 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter II. The Vedic Period
29-39 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter III. The Rigveda
40-58 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter IV. Poetry of the Rigveda
59-115 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter V. Philosophy of the Rigveda
116-138 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter VI. The Rigvedic Age
139-170 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter VII. The Later Vedas
171-201 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter VIII. The Brahmanas
202-243 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter IX. The Sutras
244-276 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter X. The Epics
277-317 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XI. Kavya or Court Epic
318-334 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XII. Lyric Poetry
335-345 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XIII. The Drama
346-367 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XIV. Fairy Tales and Fables
368-384 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XV. Philosophy
385-407 Arthur Macdonell view
Chapter XVI. Sanskrit Literature and the West
408-427 Arthur Macdonell view
Appendices
428-437 Arthur Macdonell view
Bibliographical Notes
438-454 Arthur Macdonell view
Index
455-472 Arthur Macdonell view

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