ISBN: 9789348128751
Author: Surendra Nath Dasgupta, Sushil Kumar De
Year of Publication: 2024
Binding: HB
Language: English
No. of Pages : 833
ABOUT THE BOOK : Sanskrit is indeed the language not only of Kavya of literature but of all the Indian sciences, and excepting the Pali of the Hinayana Buddhists and the Prakrit 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 is 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 to develop the idea of Hindu nationhood in which kinship of culture plays the most important part. Under the shadow of one Vedic religion there has indeed developed many subsidiary religions, Saiva, Vaisnava, Sakta, etc., and within each of these, there had been many sects and sub sects which have often emphasized the domestic quarrel, but in spite of it all there is a unity of religions among the Hindus, for the mother of all religious and secular culture had been Sanskrit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Surendranath Dasgupta (October 1887 - 18 December 1952) was scholar of Sanskrit and philosophy. He studied in Ripon College Calcutta and graduated with honours in Sanskrit Later, he received his master’s degree from Sanskrit College, Calcutta in 1908. He got a second master’s degree in Western Philosophy in 1910 from the University of Calcutta.
Sushi Kumar De (29 January 1890 – 31 January 1968) was a Bengali polymath from the early decades of the 20th century. In 1921, he did his D.Litt from the University of London (School of Oriental Studies) with a thesis on rhetoric in Sanskrit poetry. He also studied linguistics at the University of Bonn.