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Author: Jagdish Chandra Jain Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
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This Book Traces The Important Role Played By Prakrit Language And Narrative Literature In The Development Of Indian Languages And Literature. This Is Considered To Be The First Attempt Ever, By Any Indian Or Foreign Scholar In This Field. The Manifold Contributions Of Prakrit In The Field Of Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, Maharastri And Paisachi Language And Literature, Development Of Narrative Literature In Maharastri, Contributions In The Field Of Sanskrit Poetics And Drama Have All Been Incorporated In This Rare Publication.
Author: Jagdish Chandra Jain Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
This Book Traces The Important Role Played By Prakrit Language And Narrative Literature In The Development Of Indian Languages And Literature. This Is Considered To Be The First Attempt Ever, By Any Indian Or Foreign Scholar In This Field. The Manifold Contributions Of Prakrit In The Field Of Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, Maharastri And Paisachi Language And Literature, Development Of Narrative Literature In Maharastri, Contributions In The Field Of Sanskrit Poetics And Drama Have All Been Incorporated In This Rare Publication.
Author: Jagdish Chandra Jain Publisher: Manohar Publishers ISBN: 9788173045370 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
This Book Traces The Important Role Played By Prakrit Language And Narrative Literature In The Development Of Indian Languages And Literature. This Is Considered To Be The First Attempt Ever, By Any Indian Or Foreign Scholar In This Field. The Manifold Contributions Of Prakrit In The Field Of Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, Maharastri And Paisachi Language And Literature, Development Of Narrative Literature In Maharastri, Contributions In The Field Of Sanskrit Poetics And Drama Have All Been Incorporated In This Rare Publication.
Author: Kumkum Roy Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0810853663 Category : India Languages : en Pages : 490
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India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Beginning with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India, the history of India is punctuated by constant integration with migrating peoples and with the diverse cultures that surround the country. Placed in the center of Asia, history in India is a crossroads of cultures from China to Europe, as well as the most significant Asian connection with the cultures of Africa. The Historical Dictionary of Ancient India provides information ranging from the earliest Paleolithic cultures in the Indian subcontinent to 1000 CE. The ancient history of this country is related in this book through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on rulers, bureaucrats, ancient societies, religion, gods, and philosophical ideas.
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN: 9788120809796 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 622
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Taken in conjunction with my sanskrit Drama, published in 1924, this work covers the field of Classical Sanskrit Literature, as opposed to the Vedic Literature, the epics, and the Puranas. To bring the subject-matter within the limits of a single volume has rendered it necessary to treat the scientific literature briefly, and to avoid discussions of its subject-matter which appertain rather to the historian of grammer, philosophy, law, medicine, astronomy, or mathematics, than to the literary historian. This mode of treatment has rendered it possible, for the first time in any treatise in English on Sanskrit Literature, to pay due attention to the literary qualities of the Kavya. Though it was to Englishmen, such as Sir William Jones and H. T. Colebrooke, that our earliest knowledge of Sanskrit poetry was due, no English poet shared Goethe`s marvellous appereciation of the merits of works known to him only through the distorting medium of translations, and attention in England has usually been limited to the Vedic literature, as a source for comparative philology, the history of religion, or Indo-European antiquities; to the mysticism and monism of Sanskrit philosophy; and to the fables and fairy-tales in their relations to western parallels. The neglect of Sanskrit Kavya is doubtless natural. The great poets of India wrote for audiences of experts; they were masters of the learning of their day, long trained in the use of language, and they aim to please by subtlety, not simplicity of effect. They had at their disposal a singularly beautiful speech, and they commanded elaborate and most effective metres. Under these circumstances it was inevitable that their works should be difficult, but of those who on that score pass them by it may fairly be said ardua dum metuunt amittunt vera viai. It is in the great writers of Kavya along, headed by Kalidasa, that we find depth of feeling for life and nature matched with perfection of expression and rhythm. The Kavya literature includes some of the great poetry of the world, but it can never expect to attain wide popularity in the West, for it is essentially untranslatable German poets like Ruckert can, indeed, base excellent work on Sanskrit originals, but the effects produced are achieved by wholly different means, while English efforts at verse translations fall invariably below a tolerable mediocrity, their diffuse tepidity contrasting painfully with the brilliant condensation of style, the elegance of metre, and the close adaptation of sound to sense of the originals. I have, therefore, as in my Sanskrit Drama, illustrated the merits of the poets by Sanskrit extracts, adding merely a literal English version, in which no note is taken of variations of text or renderings. To save space I have in the main dealt only with works earlier than A.D. 1200, though especially in the case of the scientific literature important books of later date are briefly noticed. This book was sent in completed for the press, in January 1926 but pressure of work at the University Press precluded printing until the summer of 1927, when it wa deemed best, in order not to delay progress, to assign to this preface the notice of such new discoveries and theories of 1926 and 1927 as might have permanent interest.
Author: Sunita Kumar Chatterji Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 104003022X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 749
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First published in 1970, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 1) is the first systematic and detailed history of a Modern Indo-Aryan Language written by an Indian, and incidentally, as it is comparative in its treatment, taking into consideration facts in other Indo-Aryan speeches, it is an invaluable contribution to the scientific study of the Modern Indo-Aryan languages as a whole. This book will be of interest to students of language, linguistics and South Asian studies.
Author: Andrew Ollett Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520296222 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 324
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be 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: Jagdish Chandra Jain
Author: Jagdish Chandra Jain
Author: Alfred Cooper Woolner
Author: Jagdish Chandra Jain
Author: Moriz Winternitz
Author: Kumkum Roy
Author: T. R. S. Sharma
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
Author: Sunita Kumar Chatterji
Author: Andrew Ollett