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A History of Indian Literature

1927

327-375 Ancient Heroic Poetry in the Mahabhdrata 375-387Viii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES Brahmanical Myths and Legends in the Mahbharata 387-405 ables Parables and Moral Narratives in the Mahabharata 405-422 'he Didactic Sections of the Mahabharata 422-442 The lIarivarwa an Appendix to the Mahabharata 443-454 The Age and History of the Mahabharata 454-475 The Ramayana both a Popular Epic and [...] The publishers of this work have announced in a notice that the series in which the present volume dedicated to the ()Mat period of Indian literature appears is intended not for learned circles but for the educated people of the nation." With this idea in mind the class of reader which I have kept constantly in view in the course of my work is the reader who as yet knows nothing of Indian l [...] But the influence which this literature already in ancient times exerted over the mental life of other nations reaches far beyond the boundaries of India to Further India to Tibet as far as China Japan and Korea and in the South over Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula far away over the islands of the Indian and the Pacific Oceans while to the West the tracks of Indian mental life may be traced [...] He was alsO the editor of the Amarakoga and other Indian dictionaries of the famous grammar of Panini of the " Hitopadega " and of the epic poem " Kiratarjuniya." Further he is the author of a Sanskrit grammar and edited and tranlated a number of inscriptions. [...] With the conquest of this great department of Veda literature and with the opening-up of the literature of Buddhism the history of the infancy of Indology has reached its end.
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Pages
656
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147293
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xix M. Winternitz view
Introduction
1-51 M. Winternitz view
Section I.The Veda or the Vedic Literature
52-310 M. Winternitz view
Section II.The Popular Epics and the Purānas
311-606 M. Winternitz view
Corrections and Additions
607-611 M. Winternitz view
Index
612-634 W. Gampert view
Backmatter
i-2 M. Winternitz view

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