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Sanskrit is indeed the language not only of kavya or literature but of all the Indian sciences, and excepting the Pali of the Hinayana Buddhists and the Prakrt of the jains, it is the only language in which the last 2 or 3 thousand years, and it has united the culture of Indian and given it a synchronous form in spite of general differences of popular speech, racial and geographical, economical and other differences, It is the one ground that has made it possible ...
The Padyavali of Rupa Gosvamin is in many respects a unique work of mediaeval Bengal. Apart from its value as one of the well known anthologies of Sanskrit literature, its connexion with the Vaisnava movement of Bengal gives it an added interest and importance. Its author, a scholar and devotee, was a well known disciple of Caitanya, the founder of Bengal Vaisnavism; and as an authoritative teacher and exponent of its doctrines he became the centre of its arduous ...
These studies, written between 1925 and 955, deal with some aspects of Sanskrit Literature and form, as such, a supplement to the author’s well known History of Sanskrit Literature. Written in a scholarly but easily intelligible manner, they will be found interesting alike to scholars and general readers. This book deals with Sanskrit Monologue Play (Bhana), Bhagavatism and Sunworship, The Vedic and the Epic Krsna, Some Aspects of the Bhagavad-gita, A Note on ...