✅Rig Veda: Prayers of God
✅Sam Veda: Songs, 1st book of music,
✅Yajur Veda: Ritual processes
✅Atharva Veda: not written by Aryans; book on magic
✅Brahmans: Explanations of Vedas
✅Aranyaks: Forest books,
✅Upanishads: Metaphysical;
✅Puranas: Stories of kings
✅Epics: Ramayana, Mahabharata
✅Plays: by Kalidas etc.
▪️FOREIGN ITERATURE:
✅Magasthenes(G): Indica
Valuable information on Admin and socio-economic conditions of Mauryas.
✅Ptolemy(G): Geography of India
Geographical treatise on India in 2nd Century AD
✅Pliny(G): Naturakus Historia
Accounts trade relations between Rome and India in 1st Century AD
✅Anonymous(G) :Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
Records personal voyage of Indian coasts in 80 A.D.
✅Fa-Hien(C): Record of the Buddhist Countries
Records the Gupta Empire in the 5th Century AD
✅Hiuen Tsang(C): Buddhist Records of the Western World
Describes the social, economic and religious conditions of India in the 5th and 7th Century AD. (Harshvardhan)
✅I-tsing(C) : A record of the Buddhists religion as practiced in India and Malay Archipelago.
Studies the Gupta period under Sri Gupta in the 7th Century AD.
✅Hwuili(C): Life of Hiuen Tsang
Accounts Hiuen Tsang's travel in India.
▪️Other:
✅ Visakha Datta: Mudra Rakshas; Gupta period, Chanakya-Chandragupta story
✅Dipavamsa n Mahavamsa: Buddhist books written in Sri Lanka, Ashoka spread
✅ Divyavadan: Tibetan Buddhist book, Ashoka spread
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