A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.2

c8.2

The *Sûtra* period, with which we have to begin, is of peculiar importance to the history of Indian literature, inasmuch as it forms the connecting link between the Vedic and the later Sanskrit. While on the one hand we must place several works written in *Sûtras* under the head of the post-Vedic or modern Sanskrit, we shall also find others which, although written in continuous *Anushtubh-ślokas*, or, more frequently, intermixed with *Trishtubh* and other verses (as, for instance, some of the *Prâtiśâkhyas* and *Anukramanîs*, and the still more modern *Pariśishtas*), must be considered as the last productions of the Vedic age, trespassing in a certain degree upon the frontier of the later Sanskrit.