Saturday, November 28, 2009

LITERATURE and RELIGION

LITERATURE Literary works in Sanskrit continued to be written. Some of these works had their counterparts ih Tamil, where the models of literary composition were now taken largely from Sanskrit literature. But Tamil literature of this period shows great liveliness and vigour as in Kamban's version of the Ramayana or the works of Kuttan,
Pugalendi, Jayangondur and Kalladanar. The branching off of regional languages from Sanskrit took place throughout the peninsula.

RELIGION The parting of the ways of Sanskrit and the regional languages is reflected in religion. Sanskrit re­mained the language of Hindu theology and of the brahmans. It was also more widely used now by the Buddhists and Jainas, whose numbers were on the decrease. Buddhism practically disappeared by the end of this period, the Buddha being commonly accepted as an incarnation of Vishnu, buLJainism survived with a following in Mysore.

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