<p>Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Asian languages not required. Survey of some landmarks of classical Indian literature from second millennium BCE into second millennium CE, including both poetry and prose, high art and more popular genres, and secular and religious texts, examined in their social and institutional contexts. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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Classical Indian Literature in Translation

SASIAN150

4 units