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About The Book -: Some Problems of Indian Literature consisting of six Readership Lectures of Calcutta University delivered by Maurice Winternitz in 1923 and published by the University is going to be reprinted for the use of the academic world. The book was published 83 years ago. And even then the problems discussed in this book are still burning questions with every student of Sanskrit literature are facing today. The contents of the book will tell us the value and utility of the treatise. The problems which Winternitz has raised and discussed in the book are research orientated topics which every student of Sanskrit must be acquainted with. Let us discuss the problems one by one.As far as the first lecture. The Age of the Veda, is concerned. Winternitz is, in a sense, perplexed in determining the age of the Vedas. This question is tagged on to the question of the history of the India. The history of India is primarily divided into two broad periods prehistoric and historic. And to the prehistoric period belong the Paleolithic Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages whose dates cannot be fixed with any amount of certainty. It belongs to a hoary antiquity marked by the use of primitive stone implements.
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ISBN : 9788121226301
Pages : 138
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