Sanskrit literature

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body of texts cultural tradition literature

Sanskrit literature is the body of ancient and classical texts composed in the Sanskrit language, encompassing religious scriptures, epic poetry, philosophy, and scholarly works that have profoundly shaped South Asian culture and thought.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Vedic literature	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of texts ⓘ cultural tradition ⓘ literature ⓘ
continuity	over more than three millennia ⓘ
genre	commentary ⓘ didactic literature ⓘ drama ⓘ epic poetry ⓘ legal literature ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ mythological narrative ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ religious scripture ⓘ scientific treatise ⓘ
hasPart	Alaṅkāraśāstra texts ⓘ Arthaśāstra texts ⓘ Atharvaveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Bhagavad Gītā NERFINISHED ⓘ Bhagavata Purāṇa NERFINISHED ⓘ Bhakti poetry in Sanskrit ⓘ Bhāsa’s plays NERFINISHED ⓘ Brahma Sūtras NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddhist Sanskrit texts ⓘ Campū literature ⓘ Chandasśāstra texts ⓘ Dharmasūtras NERFINISHED ⓘ Dharmaśāstras NERFINISHED ⓘ Itihāsa ⓘ Jain Sanskrit texts ⓘ Kumārasambhava NERFINISHED ⓘ Kālidāsa’s works NERFINISHED ⓘ Kāmaśāstra texts ⓘ Kāvya ⓘ Kāvyaśāstra texts ⓘ Mahābhārata NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāpurāṇas NERFINISHED ⓘ Manusmṛti NERFINISHED ⓘ Meghadūta NERFINISHED ⓘ Mīmāṃsā texts ⓘ Nyāya texts NERFINISHED ⓘ Nāṭya (Sanskrit drama) NERFINISHED ⓘ Nāṭyaśāstra NERFINISHED ⓘ Nītiśāstra texts ⓘ Puranic literature ⓘ Purāṇas NERFINISHED ⓘ Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī NERFINISHED ⓘ Raghuvaṃśa NERFINISHED ⓘ Rāmāyaṇa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanskrit Upaniṣadic texts ⓘ Sanskrit aesthetic theory texts ⓘ Sanskrit astronomical texts ⓘ Sanskrit commentarial literature ⓘ Sanskrit devotional literature ⓘ Sanskrit dharmaśāstra texts ⓘ Sanskrit drama ⓘ Sanskrit grammatical texts ⓘ Sanskrit law texts ⓘ Sanskrit lexicographical texts ⓘ Sanskrit mathematical texts ⓘ Sanskrit medical texts ⓘ Sanskrit narrative literature ⓘ Sanskrit philosophical texts ⓘ Sanskrit prosody texts ⓘ Sanskrit ritual texts ⓘ Sanskrit scientific texts ⓘ Sanskrit smṛti texts ⓘ Sanskrit śruti texts ⓘ Smṛti literature ⓘ Stotra literature ⓘ Subhāṣita literature ⓘ Sāmaveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Sāṃkhya texts ⓘ Sūtra literature ⓘ Tantric texts ⓘ Upaniṣads NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaiśeṣika texts NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedas NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedic literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedānta texts ⓘ Viṣṇu Purāṇa NERFINISHED ⓘ Vyākaraṇa texts ⓘ Yajurveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoga texts ⓘ classical Sanskrit poetry ⓘ epic literature ⓘ Āyurveda texts ⓘ Śāstra literature ⓘ Śūdraka’s Mṛcchakaṭika NERFINISHED ⓘ Ṛgveda NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Sanskrit ⓘ
majorInfluenceOn	Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian philosophy ⓘ Jainism NERFINISHED ⓘ South Asian culture ⓘ classical Indian arts ⓘ
region	South Asia ⓘ
script	Brāhmī (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ Devanagari (in modern usage) NERFINISHED ⓘ various regional Indic scripts ⓘ
timePeriod	Vedic period NERFINISHED ⓘ classical period of India ⓘ medieval period of India ⓘ

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Laxmi Prasad Devkota → influencedBy → Sanskrit literature ⓘ

Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System → curriculumIncludes → Sanskrit literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic literature