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About The Book -: Some Problems of Indian Literature consisting of six Readership Lectures of Calcutta University delivered by Maurice Winternitz in 1923 and published by the University is going to be reprinted for the use of the academic world. The book was published 83 years ago. And even then the problems discussed in this book are still burning questions with every student of Sanskrit literature are facing today. The contents of the book will tell us the value and utility of the treatise. The problems which Winternitz has raised and discussed in the book are research orientated topics which every student of Sanskrit must be acquainted with. Let us discuss the problems one by one.As far as the first lecture. The Age of the Veda, is concerned. Winternitz is, in a sense, perplexed in determining the age of the Vedas. This question is tagged on to the question of the history of the India. The history of India is primarily divided into two broad periods prehistoric and historic. And to the prehistoric period belong the Paleolithic Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages whose dates cannot be fixed with any amount of certainty. It belongs to a hoary antiquity marked by the use of primitive stone implements. About The Author -: Moriz Winternitz (1863 –1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University.An eminent Sanskrit scholar, he worked as a professor in Prague in the German part of Karl-Ferdinands-Universität after 1902, for nearly thirty years. His Geschichte der indischen Literatur over 1908-1922 period was a major and comprehensive literary history of Sanskrit texts.The contributions on a wide range of Sanskrit texts by Winternitz have been an influential resource for modern era studies on Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In addition to valuable contributions on Sanskrit and ethnology to various scientific journals, Winternitz edited the Apastambiya Gṛihyasutra (Vienna, 1887) and the Mantrapaṭha, or the Prayer-Book of the Apastambins (part i, Oxford, 1897); translated Müller's Anthropological Religion and his Theosophy, or Psychological Religion into German (Leipzig, 1894–95); and published Das Altindische Hochzeitsrituell (Vienna, 1892), which also contains valuable ethnological material; A Catalogue of South Indian Manuscripts Belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1902); and Geschichte der Indischen Literatur. The Title 'Some problems of Indian Literature: Calcutta University Readership Lectures, 1923 written/authored/edited by M. Winternitz', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121226301 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 138 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- . PODML