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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.

E

Eagle, 78, 99

East India House, 5

Eastward migration, 214

Eclecticism, 405

Eclipse, 114, 325

Eggeling, Professor, 212, 431, 432, 433, 434, 437

Elephant, 148

Elizabethan drama, 350

Empedocles, 421, 422

Encyclopœdia of Indo-Aryan Research, 5, 6, 428

Enigmas, 131

Epics, 88, 281, 414

Epigraphia Indica, 14

Epigraphy, importance of, 14, 15

Ethical poetry, 377–384

Etymology, 264

Eudemos, 410

Eukratides, 412

Euthydemos, 412

Evolution, 136, 137

Exaggeration, 278

Ezour Vedam, 1

F

Fables, style of, 368

Fa Hian, 13

Faust, 416, 417

Fee, sacrificial, 149

Fergusson, James, 323

Fetters of Varuṇa, 76, 207

Filter of sheep’s wool, 97

Fire-sticks, 8, 95, 146

Fish, 143, 216, 295

Five Tribes, 153, 155

Fleet, Mr. J. F., 319, 322, 323

Flood, legend of, 216, 294

Food, 164, 165

Foreign visitors of India, 13

Forest nymph, 111

Franke, Professor O., 432

Frog-hymn, 121, 122

Funeral hymns, 116, 118, 124–127

Funeral rites, 256–257

Future life, 115

G

Gambler’s lament, 127–128

Gambling, 168

Gaṇapāṭha, 431

Gaṇaratna-mahodadhi, 431

Gānas, 171

Gandarewa, 108

Gandhāra, 15, 413

Gandhāras, 153, 213, 408, 409

Gandhāris, 153, 156, 195

Gandharva, 107, 108;
Gandharvas 111

Gaṇeça, 251

Ganges, 9, 24, 93, 142, 156, 157, 174, 176, 295, 316, 410, 411, 413

Gārgya, 268

Gāthā dialect, 26

Gāthās, 191, 203, 208

Gauḍa style, 303

Gauḍapāda, 241–243, 393

Gaurjarī dialect, 27

Gautama’s Dharma Çāstra, 260–261

Gautamas, 215

Gāyatrī, 56, 68, 79

Generation, reciprocal, 132

Geographical data in Rigveda, 139–144

Geometry, Greek and Indian, 424–425

Ghanapāṭha, 51

Ghaṭakarpara, 339

Girnār, 15, 321

Gītagovinda, 344, 347

Gnostics, 423, 424

Goat, sacrificial, 125

Goats of Pūshan, 80

Gobhila Sūtra, 250

Goblins, 97

Goddesses, 103, 104

Gods, character of, 72, 73;
equipment of, 72;
groups of, 105, 106;
number of, 73, 74

Goethe, 3, 354, 416

Gold, 151

Gomatī (Gomal), 140

Gopatha Brāhmaṇa, 195, 203, 217–218

Gotama, 405

Gotama Rāhūgaṇa, 214

Govindarāja, 429

Græco-Bactrian kings, 412, 415

Græco-Indian period, 412

Grammar, 39, 50, 264, 267, 268, 430–432

Grammarians, influence of, 21

Grantha (book), 19

Great Bear, 109

Greeks, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 286, 307, 308, 325;
in India, 409–412, 415, 416

Gṛihya ritual, 251–257

Gṛihya Sūtras, 37, 185, 189, 192–193, 249–251

Gujarat, 19, 147, 173, 175, 411, 412, 415

Guṇāḍhya, 318, 376

Gupta era, 320

Guptas, 323, 413

H

Hāla, 344

Halāyudha, 433

Hamilton, Alexander, 3, 4

Hanuman-nāṭaka, 366

Hanumat, 312

Haoma, 68, 99, 100

Haravijaya, 330

Hariçchandra, 207, 208

Haridās, 399

Harisheṇa, 320, 321, 324

Harivaṃça, 282, 283, 287, 288, 294, 299, 300, 301

Harshacharita, 318, 332, 334, 362

Harshavardhana, 318, 361, 413

Hartmann, E. von, 424

Hastings, Warren, 2

Haṭhayoga, 398

Heaven, 116

Heaven and earth, 104, 106, 132

Heavens and hells, 390

Heine, Heinrich, 344, 427

Heliokles, 412

Hells, 117

Hemachandra, 432, 433

Hemādri, 257, 430

Henotheism, 71

Herbs and charms, 196

Herder, 3

Hero (geometrician), 424

Herodotus, 408, 409

Himālaya, 9, 18, 23, 24, 141, 144, 145, 148, 410

Hindī dialect, 17, 27

Hindu, 95, 141

Hindu Kush, 139

Hindustan, 141

Hiouen Thsang, 13, 18, 26, 413

Hippokrates, 426

Hiraṇyagarbha, 132, 135, 137

Hiraṇyakeçin, 259;
his Çrauta Sūtra, 246;
his Gṛihya Sūtra, 250;
school of, 176

History, 430;
lack of, 10, 11

Hitopadeça, 3, 373–374, 378, 380, 381, 382

Holtzmann, Prof. Adolf, 287

Homer, 414

Homeric age, 12; Greek, 20

Hopkins, Professor, 145, 428

Horāçāstra, 425, 435

Horse, 109, 149;
sacrifice, 109, 150, 165

House of clay, 77, 125

Hūṇas, 323

Hunting, 166

Hymn of Man, 132, 133

I

I Tsing, 13, 340

Īçā Upanishad, 238

Īçāna (Çiva), 178, 206

Īçvara Kṛishṇa, 393

Identifications of gods, 70

Ikshvāku, 157, 230, 305, 311

Iliad, 414

Images of gods, 72, 210

Immortality, acquired, 71, 98, 99;
relative, 71.

Incantations, 121

India of Albērūnī, 418

Indices, Vedic, 39, 274

Indika of Megasthenes, 411

Indische Sprüche, 379

Indo-European period, 104, 126, 185, 263

Indo-Iranian period, 43, 87, 100, 110, 118, 170, 253, 263

Indra, 74, 84–87, 99, 105, 108, 114, 119, 152, 153, 172, 183, 411;
a warrior, 86, 96;
and Maruts, 90;
and Varuṇa, 75, 88, 119;
his heaven, 107, 296

Indrāṇī, 119

Indus, 9, 24, 140, 141, 142, 143, 147, 151, 155, 174, 409, 410, 411, 412

Industries, 167

Initiation, rite of, 252–253

Ink, 19

Inscriptions, 14;
importance of, 319;
style of, 321

Interpretation, Vedic, 59–64

Intoxication, 87, 99

Irāvatī (Ravi), 140

Iron, 151;
leg of Viçpalā, 84

Irrigation, 166

Itihāsa, 191, 281