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Triibner’s Oriental Series THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE Triibner’s Oriental Series THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE Trubner’s Oriental Series INDIA: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE In 14 Volumes I Indian Poetry Edwin Arnold II A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies Robert N Cust III Lays of Ancient India Romesh Chunder Dutt IV The Birth of the War-God Ralph TH Griffith V The Bengali Drama P Guha-Thakurta VI Miscellaneous Essays Relating to Indian Subjects Vol I Brian Houghton Hodgson VII Miscellaneous Essays Relating to Indian Subjects Vol II Brian Houghton Hodgson VIII Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers J Muir IX The Spirit of Oriental Poetry Pur an Singh X The History of Indian Literature Albrecht Weber XI The Satakas of Bhartrihari B Hale Wortham XII Behar Proverbs John Christian XIII A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs Herman Jensen XIV Folk-Tales of Kashmir J Hinton Knowles THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE ALBRECHT WEBER First published in 1878 by Triibner & Co Ltd Reprinted in 2000, 2002 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Transferred to Digital Printing 2007 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 187 8 Albrecht Weber All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in . Trubner’s Oriental Series This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The History of Indian Literature ISBN 0-415-24509-5 India: Language and Literature: 14 Volumes ISBN 0-415-24289-4 Triibner s Oriental Series ISBN 0-415-23188-4 ISBN 978-1-136-38693-0 (ebk) THE H I S T O R Y OF INDIAN LITERATURE. 3 AMUM CHT WEISliK. c£ranslalcti ‘from tijc Seconb (Herman Cftiticm hV JOHN MANX, M.A., THEOUOIi 2AGHAliiAE, Ph.D., JJrltllj tl)r Sanction of tljc 'HiUfjov. .AV7 ilt‘S‘<era>'i— Am:it >iicr tcir.i es A;.;v//. LONDON: TJiOriNEJi 00., LUDGATE HILL 187 s. rcsi’m^.] [All- vhjUU Fourth Edition, 1904 Popular Re-issue, 1914 The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved TRANSLATORS’ NOTE. According to the original intention, the English trans lation of this work was to have appeared shortly after the second German edition, which came out in the end of 1875, and which, as mentioned by the author in his preface, was in part prepared with a view to this translation. In con sequence, however, of the death of Professor Childers, under whose direction it was in the first instance begun, and of whose aid and supervision it would, had he lived, have had the benefit, the work came to a stand-still, and some time elapsed before the task of continuing and completing it was entrusted to those whose names appear on the title- page. The manuscript of the translation thus interrupted embraced a considerable part of the text of the first divi sion of the work (Yedic Literature). It had not under gone any revision by Professor Childers, and was found to be in a somewhat imperfect state, and to require very material modification. Upon Mr. Zachariae devolved the labour of correcting it, of completing it as far as the close of the Yedic Period, and of adding the notes to this First Part none of which had been translated. From the number of changes introduced in the course of revision, the portion of the work comprised in the manuscript in question has virtually been re-translated. The rendering of the second division of the volume (Sanskrit Literature) is entirely and exclusively the work of Mr. Mann. The circumstances under which the translation has been TRANSLATORS' NOTE. viii produced have greatly delayed its appearance. But for this delay some compensation is afforded by the Supple mentary Notes which Professor Weber has written for incorporation in the volume (p. 311 ff.), and which sup ply information regarding the latest researches and the newest publications bearing upon the subjects discussed in the work. Professor Weber has also been good enough to read the sheets as they came from the press, and the trans lators are indebted to him for a number of suggestions. A few of the abbreviations made use of in the titles of works which are frequently quoted perhaps require ex planation: e.g., I. St. for Weber's Indische Shidien ; I. Str. for his Indische Streifen; I AK. for Lassen’s Indische Alterthumshunde; Z. D. M. G. for Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, &c. The system of transliteration is in the main identical with that followed in the German original; as, however, it varies in a few particulars, it is given here instead of in the Author’s Preface. It is as follows a d i i u t i y i j ! \i li e ai o au; k kh g gh n; ch chh j jh n; % th d dli n; t th d dh n; p ph b bh m; y r 1 v; s sli s h; Anusv^ra m, in the middle of a word before sibilauU fi; V isarga h. July , 1878. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The work of my youth, which here appears in a new edi tion, had been several years out of print. To have repub lished it without alteration would scarcely have done ; and, owing to the pressure of other labours, it was im possible for me, from lack of time, to subject it to a com plete and systematic remodelling. So the matter rested. At last, to meet the urgent wish of the publisher, I re solved upon the present edition, which indeed leaves the original text unchanged, but at the same time seeks, by means of the newly added notes, to accommodate itself to the actual position of knowledge. In thus finally decid ing, I was influenced by the belief that in no other way could the great advances made in this field of learning since the first appearance of this work be more clearly ex hibited than precisely in this way, and that, consequently, this edition might at the same time serve in some measure to present, in mice, a history of Sanskrit studies during the last four-and-twenty years. Another consideration was, that only by so doing could I furnish a critically secured basis for the English translation contemplated by Messrs. Triibner & Co., which could not possibly now give the original text alone, as was done in the French transla
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