 In addition to poetry and fiction, medieval Jewish literature also includes philosophical literature, , ethical (musar) literature, legal (halakhic) literature, and commentaries on the Bible.Early Medieval (Gupta period) literature in India sees the flowering of Sanskrit drama, classical Sanskrit poetry and the compilation of the Puranas.Sanskrit declines in the early 2nd millennium, late works such as the "Kathasaritsagara" dating to the 11th century, to the benefit of literature composed in Middle Indic vernaculars such as Old Bengali, Old Hindi.