A History of Indian Literature
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Detail Of A History of Indian Literature
| ISBN | 9788120802643 |
| Pages | 616 |
| Language: | English |
| Product Code: | 1 |
| Size(in cm): | 9.0 Inch X 5.7 Inch cm |
| Weight(in grams): | 900(approx) |
Description:
Contents
Foreword vii
List of abbreviations used in the book xi
Contents xv
Introduction 1-43
Extent and significance of Indian Literature 1
The beginnings of the Study of Indian Literature in Europe 7
The Chronology of Indian Literature 21
The Script and the tradition of Indian Literature 26
Indian languages in their relationship to literature 34
Section I
The Veda or The Vedic Literature 45-288
What is the Veda? 47
The Rgveda Samhita 51
The Atharvaveda Samhita 109
Sacrifice in ancient India and the Vedic Samhitas 148
The Samaveda Samhita 152
The Samhitas of the Yajurveda 157
The Brahmanas 174
Aranyakas and Upanisads 209
The Fundamental Doctrines of the Upanisads 228
The Vedangas 249
The Ritual Literature 252
The exegetic Vedangas 262
The Age of the Veda 270
Section II
The Popular Epics and the Puranas 289
The beginnings of epic poetry in India 291
What is the Mahabharata? 296
The main story of the Mahabharata 306
Ancient hero-poetry in the Mahabharata 360
Brahminical myth-poetry and legend-poetry in the Mahabharata 372
Fables, Parables and moral stories in the Mahabharata 391
The didactic portions of the Mahabharata 405
The Harivamsa, an appendix to the Mahabharata 424
The age and the History of the Mahabharata 436
The Ramayana, Popular Epic and Ornate Poetry in one 454
Contents of the Ramayana 458
The genuine and the spurious in the Ramayana 475
The Age of the Ramayana 480
The Puranas in Indian-literature 495
Survey of the Purana-literature 507
The Tantra Literature (Samhitas, Agamas, Tantras) 559
Index 581
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