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A History of Sanskrit Literature

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By Arthur Anthony Macdonell
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The book surveys the development of Sanskrit literature from its Vedic origins through later religious and secular phases, outlining the Rigveda and subsequent Vedic texts, Brāhmaṇas and Sūtras, and the formation of epic, kāvya, lyrical, and dramatic genres. It examines poetic forms, metres, and philosophical thought embedded in the texts, traces narrative and fable traditions, and assesses later technical literatures such as law, grammar, mathematics, medicine, and the arts. The author provides critical bibliographical notes and an appendix to guide further study and considers the relationship between Sanskrit learning and Western scholarship.

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Çabara Svāmin, 400

Çāçvata, 433

Çaka era, 413

Çākalas, 52, 53

Çākalya, 50, 51, 268, 270

Çakas, 286, 322, 323, 412, 413

Çākaṭāyana, 268; pseudo-, 432

Çakuntalā, 3, 216, 283, 301, 348, 350, 352, 353, 354–358, 416

Çākyas, 215

Calderon, 367

Çāmbavya Sūtra, 249

Canarese, 18, 28

Çāṇḍilya, 213

Çankara, 240, 242, 289, 394, 402; (Çiva) 182

Çankha and Likhita, 262

Çānkhāyana Brāhmaṇa, 205, 206;
Sūtra, 49, 191, 205, 245, 249

Çānkhāyanas, 252

Çāntiçataka, 378

Cantor, 424, 434

Çārṅgadhara’s Paddhati, 379

Çarvavarman, 432

Caste, 20, 21, 33, 34, 133, 152, 160, 161, 184

Catalogues of MSS., 6

Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa, 49, 53, 54 n., 107, 108, 110, 144, 155, 172, 179, 180, 188, 191, 203, 206, 212–217

Categories, logical, 403, 404

Cattle, 127, 147, 166

Çaunaka, 51, 186, 271, 274

Çaurasenī dialect, 27

Ceylon, 25, 361, 412

Chakravāka, 150, 343

Chāṇakya-çataka, 378

Chaṇḍa-kauçika, 366

Chandra, 432

Chandragupta, 365, 410, 411, 412, 413, 415

Charaka, medical writer, 426, 427, 435, 436

Charaka school, 215

Charaka-saṃhitā, 436

Charaṇa-vyūha, 52, 275

Charaṇas, 245

Chariot race, 150, 168

Chāritravardhana, 328

Chārvāka, 86, 405–407

Chaturvarga-chintāmaṇi, 430

Chaurapanchāçikā, 339

Chedis, 155, 157

Chhandas (metre), 264

Chhāndogya Brāhmaṇa, 210

Chhāndogya Upanishad, 189, 210, 221, 223, 224, 228, 229, 420

Chinese works, 369;
pilgrims, 13

Christianity, 414

Chronological strata, 179, 188, 203

Chronology, absence of, 10;
Vedic, 11

Çiçupālavadha, 320

Çilhaṇa, 378

Çiva, 74, 89, 153, 178, 181, 182, 217, 234, 300, 411

Çloka metre, 56, 57, 279, 317

Çloka-vārttika, 400

Clouds, 68, 69, 85, 109

Coinage, transition to, 167

Colebrooke, H. T., 3, 4, 429, 430

Colour (caste), 86, 152, 161

Comparative mythology, 6, 427

Comparative philology, 6, 427

Compound words, 65, 332

Copperplate inscriptions, 18, 19

Corn, 145

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, 14, 319

Cosmical illusion (māyā), 221, 395, 401, 402

Cosmogonic hymns, 135–137, 200

Cosmogony, 132

Cosmology, 300

Cow, 68, 85, 98, 102, 108, 109, 110, 125, 149, 167

Cowell, Prof. E. B., 432

Cowkiller, 149

Çraddhā, 100

Çraddhā-kalpa, 257

Çramaṇa, 215, 411

Çrauta ritual, 192, 247–249

Çrauta Sūtras, 36, 191, 244–249, 424

Çrāvastī, 309

Creation, song of, 136–137

Creator, 70, 132

Cremation, 117, 125

Çrīdharadāsa, 379

Çrīharsha, 330

Crime, 163

Çṛingāra-çataka, 340–341

Çṛingāra-tilaka, 342, 434

Çruti, 34, 36, 205

Çūdraka, 361

Çūdras, 133, 153, 161

Çukasaptati, 375–376

Çulva Sūtras, 264, 424

Çunaḥçepa, legend of, 207

Çūrasenas, 175, 411

Curlew, 150

Curtain, stage, 352, 415, 416

Curtius, Quintus, 18, 19

Çushṇa, 114

Çutudrī (Sutlej), 93, 140, 142, 154

Çvetāçvatara Upanishad, 221, 233–234, 405

Cyrus, 408

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Daçakumāra-charita, 332

Daçarūpa, 434

Dahlmann, J., 286

Daksha, 132

Dakshiṇā, 149

Dāmodara Miçra, 366

Dānastuti, 127, 188

Dancing, 169

Daṇḍin, 320, 321, 329, 330, 332, 361, 376, 434

Darius, 408, 409

Dāsas, 113, 152, 161

Dasyus, 113, 152, 153

Daughters, undesirable, 163, 208

Dawn, 78, 81–83, 169

Dāyabhāga, 430

Debt, 163

Deçīnāmamālā, 433

Dekhan, 9, 28, 144, 429

Deluge, 216, 294

Demetrios, 412

Demigods, 106–108

Democritus, 422

Demons, 68, 72, 85, 112, 113

Deussen, Professor, 242, 400

Deva, 68

Devaçravas, 155

Devanāgarī, 17

Devatādhyāya Brāhmaṇa, 211

Devavāta, 155

Devayāna, 224

Dhammapada, 379

Dhanaṃjaya, 434

Dhanvantari, 324

Dharma, 37, 193

Dharma-nibandhas, 429

Dharma-ratna, 430

Dharma Sūtras, 37, 193, 194, 258–262, 428

Dhātṛi, 101

Dhātupāṭha, 431

Dhāvaka, 362

Dialects of Sanskrit, 22, 23;
of modern India, 24;
of Prākrit, 27

Dialogues in Rigveda, 119

Dice, 128, 169

Didactic hymns, 127–129

Dignāga, 324

Dinakara Miçra, 328

Dio Chrysostomos, 414

Dioskouroi, 84

Directorium humanæ vitæ, 417

Diseases, 196

Distillers, 165

Doab, 27, 174

Dogmatic textbooks, 205

Dogs of Yama, 117

Drāhyāyaṇa, his Çrauta Sūtra, 245

Drama, arrangement of, 351–352;
character of, 348–350;
classes of, 368;
dialects in, 23;
Greek, 350, 414, 415, 416;
origin of, 346–347, 414

Draupadī, episode of, 295

Dravidian dialects, 28

Dress, 164

Dṛishadvatī, 141, 142, 155, 174, 210

Dropsy, 77, 207

Druhyus, 153, 154

Drum deified, 112, 200

Dual deities, 69, 104, 194

Duhshanta, 216, 354

Dwarf (Vishṇu), 81, 302

Dyā Dviveda, 378

Dyaus, 68, 74, 81, 93

Dyāvāpṛithivī, 104