संस्कृत वाङ्मय का बृहद इतिहास SANSKRIT VANGMAYA KA BRIHAD ITIHAS
Manish Modi
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Jay Jinendra
संस्कृत वाङ्मय का बृहद इतिहास
SANSKRIT VANGMAYA KA BRIHAD ITIHAS
A Comprehensive History of Sanskrit Literature
Chief Editors: Baldev Upadhyaya & Shrinivas Rath
24 x 16 cm 9636 pages
Set of 15 books
Rs. 5060 for the set
Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages to emerge from India. Preceded only by Vedic Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Tamil, Classical Sanskrit was the lingua franca of Indian elite for centuries. However, the jury is still out on whether Sanskrit was actually a spoken language. Right until the Islamic conquest of India, Sanskrit was not only the medium of expression for the arts and philosophies but also the administrative language. Sanskrit united the Kashmiri with the Tamilian and the Assamese with the Gujarati.
Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and a literary and scholarly language in Jainism and Buddhism. Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies.
The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and religious texts. Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Jain, Buddhist and Hindu religious rituals in the form of hymns and mantras. Spoken Sanskrit is still in use in some villages, a few traditional institutions in India and there are many attempts at further popularization.
Classical Sanskrit is the standard register as laid out in the grammar of Panini, around the 4th century BCE. Its position in the cultures of Greater India is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of the Indian subcontinent, particularly in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
The pre-Classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE. This qualifies Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest examples of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European languages, the family which includes English and most European languages.
Sanskrit was spoken in an oral society, and the oral tradition was maintained through the development of early classical Sanskrit literature. Writing was not introduced to India until after Sanskrit had evolved into the Prakrits; when it was written, the choice of writing system was influenced by the regional scripts of the scribes. Therefore, Sanskrit has no native script of its own. As such, virtually all of the major writing systems of South Asia have been used for the production of Sanskrit manuscripts. Since the late 19th century, Devanagari has become the de facto standard writing system for Sanskrit publication, quite possibly because of the European practice of printing Sanskritic texts in this script.
The oldest written inscription in India appears on the famous Prakrit pillar inscriptions of king Ashoka. These were in the Shauraseni Prakrit language and written in the Brahmi script. These were written in the 3rd century BCE. The earliest South Indian inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi, written in early Tamil, belong to the same period.
The earliest known inscriptions in Sanskrit date to the 1st century BCE. They are in the Brahmi script, which was originally used for Prakrit, not Sanskrit. It has been described as a "paradox" that the first evidence of written Sanskrit occurs centuries later than that of the Prakrit languages which are believed to be its linguistic descendants. When Sanskrit was written down, it was first used for texts of an administrative, literary or scientific nature.
It is therefore highly commendable that the government of Uttar Pradesh thought it beneficial to publish an excellent, well-researched and low priced encyclopedia of Sanskrit literature. The encyclopedia has been written in Hindi. We are proud to make it available to all book lovers.
17 volumes of this fine encyclopedia have been published. Unfortunately, volumes 6 and 14 are out of print. We therefore present this set of 15 books for sale.
Here is a volume-wise description of the set of 15 books that are available for sale.
Volume 1 वेद Veda
Ed. by Brijbihari Chaubey. 682 pages. Published in 1996
Volume 2 वेदाङ्ग Vedanga
Ed. by Omprakash Pandey. 602 pages. Published in 1997
Volume 3 आर्ष काव्य (रामायण एवं महाभारत)
Arsha Kavya (Ramayana and Mahabharata)
Ed. by Bholashankar Vyas. 887 pages. Published in 2000
Volume 4 काव्य Kavya
Ed. by Radhavallabh Tripathi. 631 pages. Published in 1997
Volume 5 गद्य Gadya
Ed. by Jaymant Mishra. 448 pages. Published in 2003
Volume 7 आधुनिक संस्कृत साहित्य का इतिहास
Adhunik Sanskrit Sahitya ka Itihas
Ed. by Jagannath Pathak. 749 pages. Published in 2000
Volume 8 काव्यशास्त्र Kavyashastra
Ed. by Vayunandan Pandey. 803 pages. Published in 2001
Volume 9 न्याय Nyaya
Ed. by Gajanan Shastri Musalgaonkar. 460 pages. Published in 1999
Volume 10 वेदान्त Vedanta
Ed. by Sangamlal Pandey. 590 pages. Published in 1999
Volume 11 तन्त्रागम Tantragama
Ed. by Vrajvallabh Dvivedi. 651 pages. Published in 1997
Volume 12 जैन, बौद्ध एवं चार्वाक दर्शन
Jain, Bauddha evam Carvaka Darshana
Ed. by Phulchandra Premi & Ramshankar Tripathi. 656 pages. Published in 2007
Volume 13 पुराण Purana
Ed. by Gangadhar Panda. 943 pages. Published in 2006
Volume 15 व्याकरण Vyakarana
Ed. by Gopaldatt Pandey. 480 pages. Published in 2001
Volume 16 ज्योतिषशास्त्र Jyotishashastra
Ed. by Ramchandra Pandey. 382 pages. Published in 2012
Volume 17 आयुर्वेद Ayurveda
Ed. by Ramanath Dvivedi & Ravidatt Tripathi. 672 pages. Published in 2006
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