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| Prakrit meaning "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", i.e. "vernacular", in contrast to samskrta "excellently made", both adjectives elliptically referring to vak "speech") refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the ksatriya caste, but were regarded as illegitimate by the Brahmin orthodoxy. The earliest extant use of Prakrit are the inscriptions of Asoka, emperor of Northern India, and while the various Prakrit languages are associated with different patron dynasties, with different religions and different literary traditions, none of them were at any time an informal "mother tongue" in any area of India. |
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Alfred C. Woolner |
Introduction to Prakrit |
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| Introduction to Prakrit provides the reader with a guide for the more
attentive and scholarly study of Prakrit occurring in Sanskrit plays, poetry and
prose--both literary and inscriptional. It presents a general view of the
subject with special stress on Sauraseni and Maharastri Prakrit system.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I consists of I-XI Chapters
which deal with the three periods of Indo-Aryan speech, the three stages of the Middle Period, the literary and spoken... |
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Madhav M. Deshpande |
Sanskrit and Prakrit |
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| This volume brings together eight contributions of Professor Madhav M.
Deshpande relating to the historical socio-linguistics of Sanskrit and Prakrit
languages. The studies brought together here represent his continuing research
in this field. The main thrust of these studies is to show that patterns of
language used and ideas about language, are deeply influenced by political,
religious, geographical, and other socio-historical factors. |
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R. Pischel |
A Grammar of the Prakrit Languages |
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| The book presents an English translation of the German original of Pischel and contains a complete index of prakrit words.
Prakrit has several grammars - the translator has taken keen interest in the comparative study of the grammars and offers it within this book.
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