books.google.co.in - In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Language_of_the_Gods_in_the_World_of.html?id=0UCh7r2TjQIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Language of the Gods in the World of Men