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Fact 26 – There is an amazing amount of literature in Sanskrit

Fact 26 – There is an amazing amount of literature in Sanskrit

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This episode looks at introducing the great amount of literature that was available in Sanskrit. Sanskrit has a tradition of being the vehicle for reporting on a great many areas of research and literature. Some of the outputs of these researches and literature are: the Vedas, the Brāhmaṇas, the Āraṇyakas, the Upaniṣads, epics like the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, Purāṇas like the Bhāgavata, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa and many others, Buddhist writings and literature, literary outputs like poetry, drama and prose writings, works on medicine, eroticism, aesthetics, logic, astronomy and astrology, tantra rituals, music, sculpture, painting, philosophy, theology, devotion, dictionaries, thesauruses, etymology, mathematics, architecture, law and many other areas. The Vedas and other religious texts are chanted regularly in many Indian households even now. Enjoy. Visit my websites oursanskrit.com for Sanskrit lessons and other interesting inputs and my author website paramukurumathur.com for details of my books Tags: 108 facts, about Sanskrit, Greatness of Sanskrit, History, History of Sanskrit, Indo-European, Mother Tongue, our mother tongue, Revival of Sanskrit, Sanskrit Language, Sanskrit Literature, Upcoming book, Vedas, Vedic Sanskrit

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