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Contents: 1. Introductory. 2. The Vedic Period. 3. The Rigveda. 4. Poetry of the Rigveda. 5. Philosophy of the Rigveda. 6. The Rigvedic age. 7. The later Vedas. 8. The Brahmanas. 9. The Sutras. 10. The epics. 11. Kavya or court epic. 12. Lyric poetry. 13. The drama. 14. Fairy tales and fables. 15. Philosophy. 16. Sanskrit literature and the West. Appendix on technical literature, law, history, grammar, poetics, mathematics and astronomy, medicine, arts. ...
The first impulse to the study of grammar in India was given by the religious motive of preserving intact the sacred Vedic texts, the efficacy of which was believed to require attention to every letter. Thus, aided by the great transparency of the Sanskrit language, the ancient Indian grammarians had by the fifth century B.C. arrived at scientific results unequalled by any other nation of antiquity.
The oldest grammar that has been preserved is Panini's. It ...
It is an altogether fresh ‘reprint’ of the eminent Orientalist, Arthur Macdonell’s A Sanskrit Grammar (1927 edition: Oxford). Which, ever since its first appearance, has been widely acclaimed: both in India and elsewhere in the world, as an authentic, at once relevant account of classical Sanskrit. Projecting, with well-chosen examples, a whole mass of grammatical forms to be met with in the post-Vedic Sanskrit literature, the author systematically explains ...
