A HISTORY OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE
ARTHUR A. MACDONELL, M. A., Ph. D.
Of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Boden Professor of Sanskrit and Fellow of
Balliol
New York
D. Appleton and Company
1900
It is undoubtedly a surprising fact that down to the
present time
no history of Sanskrit literature as a whole has been
written in
English. For not only does that literature possess much
intrinsic
merit, but the light it sheds on the life and thought
of the population
of our Indian Empire ought to have a peculiar interest
for the
British nation. Owing chiefly to the lack of an
adequate account
of the subject, few, even of the young men who leave
these shores
every year to be its future rulers, possess any
