A History of Sanskrit Literature
Classical Sanskrit: language, epic and lyric kāvya, gnomic and didactic poetry, fable, romance, poetics and metre, and the scientific śāstras (law, medicine, astronomy, mathematics).
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. Berriedale Keith
- Extent
- 3,085 passages, 218,055 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 reprint of the 1920 edition; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash;… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. Berriedale Keith †1944); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 7 parts
- c2 A History of Sanskrit Literature — 8 parts
- c3 Preface — 123 parts
- c4 Contents — 11 parts
- c5 Abbreviations — 33 parts
- c6 Part I. The Language — 1 part
- c7 I. Sanskrit, Prākrit, and Apabhraṁça — 5 parts
- c8 Part II. Belles-Lettres and Poetics — 1 part
- c9 II. The Origin and Development of Kāvya Literature — 5 parts
- c10 III. Açvaghoṣa and Early Buddhist Kāvya — 4 parts
- c11 IV. Kālidāsa and the Guptas — 9 parts
- c12 V. Bhāravi, Bhaṭṭi, Kumāradāsa, and Māgha — 4 parts
- c13 VI. The Lesser Epic Poets — 66 parts
- c14 VII. Historical Kāvya — 8 parts
- c15 VIII. Bhartṛhari, Amaru, Bilhaṇa, and Jayadeva — 4 parts
- c16 IX. Lyric Poetry and the Anthologies — 4 parts
- c17 X. Gnomic and Didactic Poetry — 2 parts
- c18 XI. The Didactic Fable — 6 parts
- c19 XII. The Bṛhatkathā and its Descendants — 5 parts
- c20 XIII. The Romantic and the Didactic Tale — 2 parts
- c21 XIV. The Great Romances — 9 parts
- c22 XV. The later Romances and the Campūs — 2 parts
- c23 XVI. The Aims and Achievement of Sanskrit Poetry — 2 parts
- c24 XVII. The West and Indian Literature — 6 parts
- c25 XVIII. Theories of Poetry — 4 parts
- c26 Part III. Scientific Literature
- c27 XIX. The Origin and Characteristics of the Scientific Literature — 2 parts
- c28 XX. Lexicography and Metrics — 4 parts
- c29 XXI. Grammar — 4 parts
- c30 XXII. Civil and Religious Law (Dharmaçāstra) — 4 parts
- c31 XXIII. The Science of Politics and Practical Life (Arthaçāstra, Nītiçāstra) — 5 parts
- c32 XXIV. The Science of Love — 14 parts
- c33 XXV. Philosophy — 11 parts
- c34 XXVI. Medicine — 5 parts
- c35 XXVII. Astronomy, Astrology, and Mathematics — 9 parts
- c36 English Index — 230 parts
- c37 Sanskrit Index — 161 parts