A HISTORY OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE
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it possible in a single section of a book to devote to its various branches — representing as they do the result of so much specializ- ation — the attention that is due to their importance. Some of them like Philosophy, for example, require independent treatises if they are to be adequately considered. Yet it is a great advantage to have in the same book an account, however slight it may be in some cases, of the whole of the literature written in the classical language. Such an account we have in the present work and together with the author’s volume on the Drama already issued by the same publishers, it gives a splendid survey of the entire range of classical Sanskrit literature. . .*
1 The Mysore University Magazine, March 1929.
