ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The literature of those languages depended largely on the ancient Indian background, which includes two Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, as well as the Bhagavata-purana and the other Puranas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The principal topics of these works included political events, allegories, comedies, romances, and philosophical issues. In Southern India, ancient Indian writings were written in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, four Dravidian languages that also established their own literature and script.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Vedas are considered as the oldest surviving literature of Indian subcontinent. The Vedas were believed to be from the pre-vedic period.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic text. It is a collection of 1, 028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10, 600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas). The hymns are dedicated to Rigvedic deities.