Emerging Trends in Contemporary Sanskrit Literature

This book is a collection of essays on topics pertaining to Contemporary Sanskrit Literature. Poetic genius has derived source of creative inspiration from Sanskrit. Sanskrit writers have composed works on literary merit in ancient and modern styles. This book documents and critically analyses literature like mahākāvyas, novels, free-verse poetry, satire, biographies, street-plays etc. It takes into account the roles of periodicals and television scripts in propagating the rich heritage of Sanskrit.

Dr. Uma Vaidya

Dr. Gauri Mahulikar

Dr. Madhavi Narsalay

Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages has been a medium of literary expression since times immemorial. Rich literary traditions of prose and poetry thrived in ancient times. It is assumed that Sanskrit, as a language of literary expression suffered a decline during British rule and it continued in the post-independence period. The present work is an attempt to prove this notion as false. Sanskrit continues to be the medium of inspiration for many authors. Literature consists of texts based on factual information as well as original imagination and also reflective thoughts. Sanskrit literature has been classified as Vedic and Classical, as per its linguistic and grammar peculiarities. Based on historical period, it is classified as ancient, medieval and modern. Present work is based on Sanskrit Literature, especially written during post- independence period.
British rule brought winds of change in various fields of literature and Sanskrit did not remain untouched by them. Apart from the compositions based on the norms laid down by Sahityadarpana of Viśvanatha and other rhetoricians, there was a surgence of compositions in different forms. This was an answer to the propaganda that Sanskrit is a dead language'.
Different genres of literature, viz; fictional, philosophical, historical, journalistic, media, drama, translations as well as poetry both metrical and free-verse are taken into consideration. Emerging trends in Sanskrit Literature tries to map the prominent trends from post-independence India with stress on literature composed after 1990s.
This actually underlines the unique feature of Sanskrit, which is regarded as the language of ancient knowledge systems as well as literature on one hand and on the other hand it is that language which appeals to the poetic genius of modern Indian writers to continue to compose literary works of merit.

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