People's Linguistic Survey of India, Volume 36: Sanskrit

Contents: Foreword. 1. Sanskrit: An Introduction/Avadhesh K. Singh. 2. Sanskrit: A Brief Overview/Shakuntala Gawde. 3. Origin of the Sanskrit Language/Shakuntala Gawde. 4. Sanskrit: Theories of its Evolution/Vivek M. Bhat. 5. Pali, Prakrit and Apabhramsha as Cornerstones of Sanskrit/Ajay Kumar Singh. 6. Sanskrit as a Carrier of India’s Cultural Continuity/Shashiprabha Kumar. 7. Sanskrit Knowledge Traditions/Kapil Kapoor. 8. Sanskrit Linguistics/Kapil Kapoor. 9. Sanskrit Aesthetics and Ethics/Kapil Kapoor. 10. Sanskrit Poetics/Kapil Kapoor. 11. History of Sanskrit Criticism/Avadhesh K. Singh. 12. Myths Related to Writing in Sanskrit/Vijay Pandya. 13. Early ‘Kavya’ in Sanskrit/Vijay Pandya. 14. Epics (Mahakavyas) and Early Drama in Sanskrit/Vijay Pandya. 15. Contribution of Women Writers to Sanskrit and its Affiliate Prakrit and Pali Literatures/Manibhai K. Prajapati. 16. The Colonial Interest in Sanskrit and its Impact on Western Linguistics/Satyapal Singh. 17. Sanskrit Studies and Indology/Vijay Pandya. 18. Initiation into Sanskrit Learning: Ritual of Upanayana (Initiation)/Gauri Mahulikar. 19. Svadhyaya as a Mode of Learning in Sanskrit/Vladimir Yatsenko. 20. Sanskrit in the Middle of the Twentieth Century/K. K. Handiqui. 21. Sanskrit Literature in the Twenty-first Century/Harshdev Madhav. 22. Sanskrit in/and Digital Age/Jagdish Sharma. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Sanskrit, along with Tamil and Pali, is an Indian language of ancient origin. Though it is no longer in active use, its contribution towards shaping various modern Indian languages has been substantial. This volume of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India, Sanskrit (volume thirty-six), provides an analytical view of the origin, development and decline of the language. It also presents the philosophy of language and linguistics that emerged within the Sanskrit tradition. Edited by the late Professor Avadhesh Kumar Singh, the volume will be an invaluable contribution towards a serious study of the history and the literary contribution of the Sanskrit language.