A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.9
A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.9
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The oldest love-song certainly must not have been composed in Sanskrit, but in popular languages. And it is why that a greater part of the Indian lyric poetry belongs to Prākrit literature. But in old Indian literature, however, a few traces of real folk-songs are preserved for us in Prākrit lyric poems. The great bulk of even Prākrit lyrics too certainly belongs to ornate court poetry, exactly as the whole of Sanskrit lyric. The ornate metres originated first of all on the soil of the latter, whilst the popular and the Prākrit poetry