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    This document provides a summary of A. Berriedale Keith's book "A History of Sanskrit Literature". The book covers classical Sanskrit literature excluding Vedic literature, epics, and Puranas. It focuses on Kavya literature including major poets like Kalidasa. The book has sections on the development of various genres of literature like lyric poetry, fables, romances. It also briefly covers scientific literature related to grammar, philosophy, medicine, astronomy etc. The book aims to highlight the literary qualities of Sanskrit poetry and discuss major writers and their works.

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    1.

    BELLES-LETTRES AND POETICS


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    1. Development and History of Sanskrit Literature - A Berriedale Keith


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    The origin and development of Kavya literature. 3. Acvaghosa and early
    Buddhist Kavya. 4. Kalidasa and the Guptas. 5. Bharavi, Bhatti,
    Kumaradasa, and Magha ...

    A HISTORY OF SANSKRIT
    LITERATURE

    Keith, A. Berriedale

    Price: $19.95

    Place Published: Delhi


    Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
    Date Published: 1996
    Book Id: 119372

    Description

    575pp., Notes, English Index, Sanskrit Index. Hardcover Book and DJ,
    bright and clean inside and out; available to ship today from our store in
    Santa Monica, California. This work covers the field of classical Sanskrit
    literature as opposed to the Vedic literature, the epics and the Puranas.
    Select contents include: The Origin of Sanskrit, the Origin and
    Development of Kavya Literature, Kalidasa, Bharavi, Historical Kavya,
    Lyric Poetry, the Didactic Fable s, the Brhatkatha, the Great Romances,
    Theories of Poetry, Lexicography and Matrices, the Beginnings of
    Grammatical Study, Dharmasastras, the Science of Politics, Philosophy
    and Religion, Medicine, Astronomy, Astrology and Mathematics and more.
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    A History of Sanskrit Literature (English + Sanskrit)
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    Taken in conjunction with my Sanskrit Drama, this work covers the field of Classical Sanskrit
    Literature as opposed to the Vedic Literature, the epics, and the Puranas. To bring the subject-
    matter within the limits of a single volume has rendered it necessary to treat the scientific
    literature briefly, and to avoid discussions of its subject-matter which appertains rather to the
    historian of grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, astronomy, or mathematics, than to the
    literary historian. The mode of treatment has rendered it possible, for the first time in any
    treatise in English on Sanskrit Literature, to pay due attention to the literary qualities of the
    Kavya.

    It is in the great writers of Kavya along, headed by Kalidasa that we find an in-depth feeling
    for life and nature matched with perfection of expression and rhythm. The Kavya literature
    includes some of the great poetry of the world.

    The contents include: The Origin of Sanskrit, the Origin and Development of Kavya
    Literature, Kalidasa, Bharavi, Historical Kavya, Lyric Poetry, the Didactic Fables, the
    Brhatkatha, the Great Romances, Theories of Poetry, Lexicography and Matrices, the
    Beginnings of Grammatical Study, Dharmasastras, the Science of Politics, Philosophy and
    Religion, Medicine, Astronomy, Astrology and Mathematics and many more topics of vital
    interest.

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    Kumaralata and the early Kavya, Sanskrit, and Prakrit
    Kalidasas Date and Place of Birth
    Greek and Indian Fables
    The Dramas of Bhasa
    Dandin and the Avantisundarikatha
    The Authenticity of the Arthacastra
    The Dates of the Philosophical Systems
    Medical Fragments from Turkestan
    The Indian Origin of the Numerals
    Sanskrit as a vernacular

    PART I THE LANGUAGE


    I. Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Apabhranca.

    PART II BELLES LETTRES AND POETICS


    II. The Origin and Development of Kavya Literature
    III. Avaghosa and Early Buddhist Kavya
    IV. Kalidasa and the Guptas
    V. Bharavi, Bhatti, Kumaradasa, and Magha
    VI. The Lesser Epic Poets
    VII. Historical Kavya
    VIII. Bhartrhari, Amaru, Bilhana, and Jayadeva
    IX. Lyric Poetry and the Anthologies
    X. Gnomic and Didactic Poetry
    XI. The Didactic Fable
    XII. The Brhatkatha and its Descendants
    XIII. The Romantic and the Didactic Tale
    XIV. The Great Romances
    XV. The later Romances and the Campus
    XVI. The Aims and Achievement of Sanskrit Poetry
    XVII. The West and Indian Literature
    XVIII. Theories of Poetry

    PART III SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE


    XIX. The Origin and Characteristics of the Scientific Literature
    XX. Lexicography and Metrics
    XXI. Grammar
    XXII. Civil and Religious Law (Dharmacastra)
    XXIII. The Science of Politics and Practical Life (Artha-castra, Niticastra)
    XXIV. The Science of Love (Kamacastra)
    XXV. Philosophy and Religion
    XXVI. Medicine
    XXVII. Astronomy, Astrology, and Mathematics

    English Index
    Sanskrit Index

    About the Author

    ARTHUR BERRIEDALE KEITH (1879-1944), an eminent authority on Sanskrit language


    and literature, was born at Portobello, Edinburgh on 5 April 1879. After a brilliant academic
    career at Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford where he studied classics, Sanskrit and Pali,
    he entered the British Civil Service in 1901. In 1904, he was called to the bar at Inner Temple.
    Though better known for his deep study of Sanskrit language and literature, Keith also had a
    deep understanding of law. In 1914, he joined the University of Edinburgh as a Regius
    Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology and from 1922 he concurrently held the
    lectureship in the Constitution of the British Empire. Apart from being a member of the
    Committee on Home Administration of Indian Affairs (1919), he was also a member of a
    number of important Commissions. He died in Edinburgh on 6 October 1944. Arthur
    Berriedale Keiths contributions on Sanskrit language and literature are diverse and are
    marked by a deep understanding of the obstruse subjects as is evident from his books and
    many articles in learned journals and translations of ancient Sanskrit Texts. His History of
    Sanskrit Literature, Sanskrit Drama, Classical Sanskrit Literature, Religion and Philosophy of
    the Veda and Upanishads, Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy,
    Responsible Government in the Dominions apart from the translations of the Karma-
    Mimamsa, Aitareya Aranyaka, Sankhayana Aranyaka and Mythology of All Raees: Indian and
    Iranian (jointly with Albert J Carony) and Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (jointly with A
    A Macdonell) bear testimony to his deep scholarship.

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