[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s5.127 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.127 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.127 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.127](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.127) ¹ The title signifies "history of the Buddhas; " for the Pāli word Vaṃsa (Sanskrit vaṃśa) means "line of a pedigree, or genealogy," hence also the "chronicle" or the "history" of a race, dynasty, line of teachers and so on; hence the meaning was extended to embrace any "history" going back to earliest beginnings, in such titles as Buddhavamsa, Dīpavaṃsa, Mahāvaṃsa, Thūpavaṃsa, Dāṭhāvaṃsa, etc., similarly in the Sanskrit titles Harivaṃśa, Raghuvaṃśa, etc. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.126](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.126) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.128) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) ## Cites (7) - [Buddhavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.buddhavamsa) — Pāli - [Dīpavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.dipavamsa) — Pāli - [Thūpavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.thupavamsa) — Vācissara, Pāli - [Dāṭhāvaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.dathavamsa) — Dhammakitti (Dāṭhāvaṃsa), Pāli - [Raghuvaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.rama.raghuvamsa-works.raghuvamsa) — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mahāvaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.mahavamsa) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.127](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.127) · Pramāṇa