A History Of Indian Literature (3 Vols.)
Maurice Winternitz · Motilal Banarsidass
The history of Indian literature is the history of the mental activity of at least three millennia expressed in speech and writing. And the place of this mental activity continued uninterrupted through the millennia in a country which extends from the Hindukush to the Cape Comorin and covers an area of one and a half million square miles, equal in extent to the whole of Europe excluding Russia a country extending from 8o N to 35o N, thus stretching from the hottest equatorial regions right into the temperature zone. The influence that this literature exercised over the intellectual life of other folks even in olden fays however is feld far beyond the frontiers of India and (Further India), in Tibet as well as China, Japan and Korea and in the South in Ceylon and the Malayan Peninsula and forther beyond in the island groups of the Indian and the Pacific oceans, while in the West we find traces of Indian intellectual life in place reacing deep into Central Asia and East Turkistan, where Indian manuscripts were found buried in the sands of the desert.
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