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Title: Essays Analytical, Critical, and Philological on Subjects Connected With Sanskrit Literature: Analysis of the Pur ¡ „as. Hindu Fiction. on the Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Hindus. Introduction to the Mah ¡bh ¡rata, and Translation of Three Extracts. Introduction to the Da ›akum ¡racharita General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Tr ¼bner Subjects: Sanskrit literature Sanskrit philology Literary Collections / Asian Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic Religion / Hinduism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. HINDU FICTION. From the Oriental Quarterly Magnzine. Calc., March 1824, p. 63 -- 77. It was intimated on a former occasion1 that Hindu Literature included collections of domestic narrative, of an extent surpassing that of any other people, anterior to the two last centuries, and of an antiquity at the least exceeding similar compilations in any Oriental tongue; and that it was consequently probable that much of the invention displayed on the revival of letters in Europe was referable to an Indian origin. In confirmation of these opinions, the learned labours of the Baron de Sacy were then cited, and his history of the migrations of Pilpay`s Fables presented to our readers. Those fables, in their former, and in their modern and more authenthic shape, are well known, and need not be here adverted to; and it will be easy to adduce other proofs of the accuracy of our sentiments. The study of the Hindi and Bengali languages has rendered a number of persons familiar with the Sinhasan Battisi and Beital Pachisi, or the narratives related to Bhoja by the statues which supported his throne, and the tales told to Vikramaditya by the spirit ...ISBN - 9788120600775
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