A Prakrit reader
Author | : H. S. Ananthanarayana |
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Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : H. S. Ananthanarayana |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : H. S. Ananthanarayana |
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Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : H. S. Ananthanarayana |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Prakrit languages |
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Author | : H. S. Ananthanarayana |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Prakrit languages |
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Author | : Alfred Cooper Woolner |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Prakrit languages |
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Author | : Andrew Ollett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520968816 |
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 | : A. M. Ghatage |
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Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Alfred C 1878-1936 Woolner |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781021184177 |
A comprehensive guide to the Prakrit language, covering its history, grammar, and usage. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the rich linguistic heritage of India. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : A. M. Ghatage |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2008-02-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9351182452 |
The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveler includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular.