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Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit , texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.
Literature in Sanskrit [ab] can be broadly divided into texts composed in Vedic Sanskrit and the later Classical Sanskrit. [273] Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the extensive liturgical works of the Vedic religion, [ ac ] which aside from the four Vedas, include the Brāhmaṇas and the Sūtras.
Indian classical drama is regarded as the highest achievement of Sanskrit literature. [ 3 ] The Buddhist playwright, poet and philosopher Asvaghosa , who composed the Buddhacarita , is considered to have been one of the first Sanskrit dramatists along with Bhāsa , who likely lived in the 2nd century BCE, and is famous for writing two of the ...
As literature, cantos 1, 2 and 10 in particular stand comparison with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The Bhaṭṭikāvya provides a comprehensive exemplification of Sanskrit grammar in use and a good introduction to the science ( śāstra ) of poetics or rhetoric ( alaṃkāra , lit. ornament).
A grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th century BC has been solved by a Cambridge University student and could “revolutionise the study of Sanskrit”, a professor has said.
Bāṇabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India.He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of the Emperor Harsha, who reigned c. 606–647 CE in northern India, first from Sthanvishvara, and later Kanyakubja.
Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) refers to the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets flourishing between c.200 BCE and 1200 CE. [1] [2]This literary style, which includes both poetry and prose, is characterised by abundant usage of figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole to create its characteristic emotional effects.
[239] Some Hindus challenge the authority of the Vedas, thereby implicitly acknowledging its importance to the history of Hinduism, states Lipner. [ 240 ] While Hindu reform movement such as Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj accept the authority of Vedas, [ 241 ] Hindu modernists like Debendranath Tagore and Keshub Chandra Sen ; [ 242 ] and social ...