000			01307nam a22001577a 4500
999			_c76443 _d76443
082			_a891.209 R1269 M _b105132
100			_aRaghunathacharya S.B
245			_aMahasvine: _bPrambhotsava sanchika _hSanskrit
250			_a1st ed
260			_aTirupati _bRashtriya sanskrit vidyapeetha _c1999
300			_a164
500			_aLiterature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second millennium B.C.E. until the present. Sanskrit has an extremely rich and complex grammatical structure and an enormous vocabulary. It was a spoken language for centuries before the Vedas were written down. Around 600 B.C.E., in the classical period of Iron Age Ancient India, Sanskrit began the transition from a primary language to a second language of religion and learning, used by the educated elite. Literature in Sanskrit begins with the Vedas, and continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to the Early Middle Ages (roughly the third to seventh centuries C.E.). Literary production in Sanskrit saw a late bloom in the eleventh century before declining after 1100 C.E.
505			_aVedavidya samshodhanam, Vineta nivedanam.
650			_aSanskrit literature
942			_cBK