A History of Sanskrit Literature
Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, published A History of Sanskrit Literature in 1900 for general readers rather than specialists. He begins with the Vedic age, the hymns of the Rigveda, the later Vedas, the Brahmanas, Upanishads and sutras, then moves to the post-Vedic period: the epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the Puranas, court poetry, drama, lyric and ethical verse, fables and fairy tales, and philosophy. An appendix surveys the technical literature of law, history, grammar, lexicography, poetics, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and the arts. Translated passages illustrate each form, and Macdonell is careful to separate what can be dated from what remains conjecture. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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