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acknowledged authorities on all points concerning the grammar or construction of the Sanskrit speech.
These two broad phases of the Sanskrit language—the Vedic and the Classical—admit of a corresponding classification in the body of the literature itself. The Vedic and the classical periods, which, as we have seen, are but the ^Manifestation of the same language, partly overlap each other. They do not mark any strictly chronological succession. However some of the later works are assigned to the first period more for their subject-matter aad their archaic style than for any just claim to a high antiquity* The classical portion is entirely a product of artificial growth in the sense that its vehicle at least after .the dawn of the Christian era was not the language of the general body of the people, but of a small and educated class. This language, as constitutes the vast expanse oftfoe Classical .Sanskrit literature, is the subject of our consideration* " It would be a mistake to suppose that Sanskrit literature came into being only at the close of the Vedic period or that it merely forms its continuation and development." As a profane literature, it must in its earliest phases, which are lost, have been contemporaneous with the religious literature of the Vedas. The Rig Veda contains hymns of a narrative character. The Brahmanas have a number of short legends, partly in prose and partly in verse. The Nirukti contains many prose tales and the Brihaddevata forms the oldest existing collection of Vedic legend* Here then is the origin of Sanskrit epic poetry. 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