“A Classical Newari: A SketchThis book, written by Dr. Kamal Prakash Malla, is About the history of ancient Nepal Bhasa literature in English. It was first published in 1982 by Educational Enterprises Private Limited, and later its second and third editions have also been released. This book, dedicated to the scholar Dharmaditya Dharmacharya, who first provided information About the history of Nepal Bhasa, contains a total of two chapters. Before the publication of this book, some information regarding ancient language, literature, and script of Nepal Bhasa was provided by Dharmaditya Dharmacharya Nepal Bhasa and its Literature provided by a long article titled 'Contemporary Nepal Bhasa and Buddhism', and subsequently by Chittadhar Hridaya's Our Literature book provides. “A Classical Newari: A Sketch” This book was written by author Malla after studying and researching ancient and medieval inscriptions and texts of Nepal. This book is divided into two parts, Part I / II, with the first part being “The Literate CultureThe purpose of writing this book under the name of '...' is to mention various archives and texts of the Valley, the interest shown by indigenous and foreign scholars in the study of ancient texts, the number, type, level, script of ancient archival texts, and the materials, language, script, etc. used for writing at that time. In the second part, under the title 'literate', an introduction to the creative literature of ancient Nepal Bhasa is given. Similarly, this second part is divided into titles such as 'Classical Newari Prose, Classical Newari Poetry, Classical Newari Drama, The Literature' and 'Rituals', discussing ancient Newari narratives,detailed discussions are made About poetry, drama, rituals, etc. In this way, this 'A Classical Newari: A SketchThis is the first book related to ancient Nepal Bhasa literature that has been scientifically studied and analyzed in the process of writing the history of Nepal Bhasa literature.
