Advanced Literary Sanskrit

Harvard FAS

"In this course we will read well-known examples of Sanskrit poetry, prose, and literary theory. We will also study Sanskrit commentaries and learn how to learn from them responsibly." On a sentence- or paragraph level, students will explain the basic syntactical constructions and grammatical features of the (quite challenging!) texts they read. Along the way, students will develop the ability to recognize many of the conventions of scholastic Sanskrit. No matter which texts we…