[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Sanskrit Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900) › c2.8 # A History of Sanskrit Literature c2.8 A History of Sanskrit Literature c2.8 - **Language:** English ### [c2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2.8) All the quotations which I have given by way of illustration I have myself carefully selected from the original works. Excepting the short extracts on page 333 from Cowell and Thomas's excellent translation of the \*Harshacharita\*, all the renderings of these are my own. In my versions of Rigvedic stanzas I have, however, occasionally borrowed a line or phrase from Griffith. Nearly all my renderings are as close as the use of metre permits. I have endeavoured to reproduce, as far as possible, the measures of the original, except in the quotations from the dramas, where I have always employed blank verse. I have throughout refrained from rhyme, as misrepresenting the original Sanskrit. - [Previous: c2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2.7) - [Next: c2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2.9) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c2.8) · Pramāṇa