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Additional Info
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Time Period
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Author
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Ashtadhyayi
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Sanskrit Treatise on grammar.
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600 -500 BC
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Panini
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Varttikas
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(notes on Panini). He lived between Panini and Patanjali.
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300 BC
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Katyayana
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Mahabhashya
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commentary on both Panini and Katyayana
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200 BC
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Patanjali
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Natyashastra
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Often called 5th Veda. Sanskrit Treatise on performing arts, dance and music.
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200 BCE - 200 AD
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Bharat Muni
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Prajnaparamita
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100 BCE.
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Nagarjuna
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Milindapañha
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100 BC and 200 AD.
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Nāgasena
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Madhyama - Vyayoga
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A one act Sanskrit Play based on Mahabharata featuring Bhima and Ghatotkacha.
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300 AD
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Bhasa
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Sarvastivada Vinaya
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a monastic rule book for the Sarvastivada school of Buddhism, containing detailed regulations for monastic life, including ordination, discipline, and daily conduct
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Sanghabhuti
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Malavikaagnimitra
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depicts love story of Agnimitra and Malvika
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late 4th-early 5th century
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Kalidasa
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Vikramorvashiiya
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based story of Pururavaas and Urvashii
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late 4th-early 5th century
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Kalidasa
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AbhiGYaanashaakuntala
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The story of Dushyanta and Shakuntala
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late 4th-early 5th century
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Kalidasa
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Kumarasambhava
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It is based on the context of the birth of Kartikeya, the son of God Shiva and Goddess Parvati
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late 4th-early 5th century
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Kalidasa
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Raghuvamsha
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It depicts the life of Rama, together with a record of his ancestors and descendants
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late 4th-early 5th century
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Kalidasa
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Devichandragupta
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Sanskrit play narrates the heroic deeds of Chandragupta, particularly rescuing his elder brother's wife from the Shaka ruler.
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4th-5th century CE
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Vishakhadatta
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Mudrarakshasa
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details the political intrigue and power struggles surrounding Chandragupta Maurya's rise to power, particularly focusing on Chanakya's cunning strategies to outmaneuver the Nanda minister, Rakshasa.
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4th-5th century CE
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Vishakhadatta
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Visuddhimagga
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'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma
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500 AD
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Buddhaghosa
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Ashtanga Hridaya
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poetic conciseness and synthesis of knowledge from both Charaka Samhita & Sushruta Samhita
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500-700 AD
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Vagbhata
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Kirātārjunīya
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Sanskrit epic poem. tells the story of battle between Arjuna seeking divine weapons from Lord Shiva, who appears as a tribal hunter (Kirata)
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600 AD.
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Bharavi
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Brihatsamhita
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Exhaustive study on architecture, temples, planetary motions, eclipses, mathematics etc.
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600 AD
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Varahamihir
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Panch siddhantika
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Compilation of Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian Astronomy. India's foremost astrological text.
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600 AD
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Varahamihir
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Brihat Jataka
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Standard textbook on Vedic Astrology
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600 AD
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Varahamihir
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Brahmasphutasiddhanta
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significant mathematical content, including the first good understanding of the role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and quadratic equations, and rules for summing series, ...
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c. 628. AD
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Brahmagupta
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Kavyalankara
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Sanskrit work on poetics and literary criticism.
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900 AD
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Rudrata
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Yashastilaka Champu
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He's a Digambara Jain scholar.
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1000 AD
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Somadeva Suri
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Damayanti Katha
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1000 AD
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Trivikrama Bhatta
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Nitivakyamrita
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work on ethics, politics, and social norms written in Sanskrit
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1000 AD
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Somadeva Suri
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Siddhant Shiromani
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Lilavati (arithmetic), Bijaganita (algebra), Grahaganita (planetary motion), and Goladhyaya (spherical astronomy).
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1150
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Bhaskar
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Anuvyakhyana
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Preached Dwaita or Dualism. ( 1238- 1319 AD)
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12-1300 AD
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Madhvacharya
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Gitagovinda
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1200 AD
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Jayadeva
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Hammira-Mahakavya
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legendary biography of the 13th-century Chahamana king Hammira and tells about the Chahamana dynasty rulers.
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1500 AD
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Nayachandra Suri
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Rigarthadipika
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Commentary on Rigaveda
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Venkata Madhava
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Kataka
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Commentary ON rigaveda.
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Madhav Yogi
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Shabda Kalpadruma
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Sanskrit Dictionary
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1822 and 1856.
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Radhakanta Deb
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Sambad Prabhakar
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1st First BENGALI daily newspaper.
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1831.1839.
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Ishwar Chandra Gupta
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Darpan
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1st Marathi daily newspaper
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1832
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Balshastri Jambhekar
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The Bengalee
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Surendra Nath Banerjee
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Indian Mirror
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1862
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Devendra Nath Tagore
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Bharat Shramjeevi
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1870
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Sasipada Banerjee
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Deenbandhu
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1880
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Narayan Meghaji Lokhande
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Vital-Vidhvansak
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, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target
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1888
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Gopal Baba Walangkar
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The Indian sociologist
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Shyamji Krishnavarma
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Shatpatre' (Hundred Letters). weekly newspaper Prabhakar
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weekly newspaper Prabhakar
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Gopal Hari Deshmukh
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