Complex sentence: In the first period we find a scholar well-armed with the fundamentals of Sanskrit aesthetics into the literary criticism, then messed up with efforts by others to found an indigenous critical theory.
Split into simpler sentences: In the first period we find a scholar well-armed with the fundamentals of Sanskrit aesthetics. He made a tremendous attempt to encapsulate the cream of Sanskrit aesthetics into the literary criticism, then messed up with efforts by others to found an indigenous critical theory.