A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.5

v3.c35.s8.5

The history of Indian metrics too makes it clear that love-lyrics were not only cultured early in India but also that they had developed a high degree of skill and poetic merit³. We have before us a fragment of the composition of the grammarian Patañjali, and that has been beautifully translated into German by Th. Aufrecht:—