A Grammar of the Prakrit Language PDF Download

Author: Dineschandra Sircar
Publisher: Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass
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Category : Prakrit language
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Richard Pischel
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120816800
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Prakrit has a vast literature but it had no systematic comprehensive grammar. Scholars like Vararuci, Hemacandra, Trivikrama, Markandeya, Laksmidhara, Krsna Pandit, Ramasarana Tarkavagisa had indeed their own grammars but they differed immensely in respect of their contents. Lessen was the first who tried to systematize Prakrit grammar but he wrote in Latin. Then came Pischel who analysed not only the extant grammars but studied minutely the whole of extant Prakrit literature and collected first hand information about this important language.

Author: Thomas Oberlies
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110870932
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.

Author: Andrew Ollett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520968816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.

Author: Alfred Cooper Woolner
Publisher:
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Category : Prakrit languages
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Rishikesh
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Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Ernst Trumpp
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Category : Sindhi language
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Madhav Deshpande
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811362
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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This volume brings together eight contributions of Professor Madhav M. Deshpande relating to the historical sociolinguistics of sanskrit and Prakrit languages. The studies brought together here represent his continuing research in this field after his 1979 book: Sociolinguistic Attitudes in India: An Historical Reconstruction. The main thrust of these studies is to show that patterns of language, including grammatical theories are deeply influenced by political, religious, geographical, and other sociohistorical factors. This is true as much of ancient languages as it is for modern languages.

Author: Madhukar Anant Mehendale
Publisher:
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Category : Inscriptions, Prakrit
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520245008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705

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