ISBN: 9789348911544
Author: A. Berriedale Keith
Year of Publication: May'2025
Binding: PB
Language: English
No. of Pages: 612
ABOUT THE BOOK : Taken in conjunction with the author’s Sanskrit Drama, this work covers the field of classical Sanskrit literature as opposed to the Vedic literature, the epics and the purdnas. To bring the subject-matter within the limits of a single volume has rendered it necessary to treat, the scientific literature briefly. And to avoid discussions of its subject-matter, which appertains rather to the historian of grammar, philosophy law, medicine, astronomy or mathematics, than to the literary historians. The mode of treatment has rendered it possible. For the first time in any treatise in English on Sanskrit literature, to pay due attention to the literary qualities of the kavya.
It is in the great writers of kavya alone, headed by Kalidasa that we find an indepth feeling for life and nature matched with perfection of expression and rhythm. The kavya literature includes some of the great poetry of the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : A. Berriedale Keith (1979-1944) was a constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologiest. He became regius Prof. of Sanskrit and Lecture in Constitutional History in the University of Edinburgh. Some of his well-knownworks are – Indian Mythology (1917) The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda andUpanishads (1925), The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy(1918), A History of Sanskrit Literature (1920), He also translated The Aitareya Aranyaka (1909), The Veda of the Black Yajus School ( Taitiriya Samhita ). Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kausitaki Brahmanas of the Rigveda (1920)