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To better understand the various Prakrit languages and their scope, a brief survey of Prakrit literature seems indispensable. The World of Prakrit Literature Prakrit was used in the production of inscriptions, administrative accounts, religious doctrines, secular narratives, plays and songs.
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Prakrit (/ ˈ p r ɑː k r ɪ t / [a]) is a group of vernacular classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. [2] [3] The term Prakrit is usually applied to the middle period of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, excluding earlier inscriptions and Pali. [4]
Prakrit languages, Middle Indo-Aryan languages known from inscriptions, literary works, and grammarians’ descriptions. Prakrit languages are related to Sanskrit but differ from and are contrasted with it in several ways.
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Ollett, Andrew. Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780520296220. [Available as a physical bo...Nitti-Dolci, Luigia. The Prākrita Grammarians. Delhi: MotilalBanarsidass, 1972. [Translated by Prabhākara Jha; the book was originally published in 1938.]Dundas, Paul. The Sattasaī and its Commentators. Turin: Pubblicazioni di «Indologica Taurinensia», 1985. [Available on Canvas.].Selby, Martha Ann. Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.Pischel, Richard. A Grammar of the Prākrit Languages. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981. [Available from Internet Archive; I have also put a copy up on Canvas, as well as the comprehensive class="te...van den Bossche, Frank. A Reference Manual of Middle Prākrit Grammar: The Prākrits of the Dramas and the Jain Texts. Gent: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid- en Oost-Azië, 1999. [Available on Can...von Hinüber, Oskar. Das ältere Mittelindisch im Überblick. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001. Second revised edition. [Available on Canvas.]Sircar, D. C. Grammar of the Prakrit Language, based Mainly on Vararuchi, Hemachandra and Purushottama. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1970 [second revised edition; first edition 1943]. [Available on...Sheth, Hargovind Das T. Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavō (Prākr̥ta-śabda-mahārṇavaḥ). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986. [A reprint of the second edition, published by the Prakrit Text Society in 1963. Availabl...
Jacobi, Hermann. Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Mâhârâshṭrî. Leipzig: Birzel, 1886. [Both a useful textbook, with selections from narrative literature accompanied by a glossary and a grammatical sketch...Woolner, Alfred. Introduction to Prakrit. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917. [Available at Internet Archive.]Kulkarni, V. M. Prakrit Verses Cited in Sanskrit Works of Poetics. 2 vols. Delhi: Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology, 1988. [A truly important, but nevertheless difficult-to-use, resource, w...
The sacred books of the Digambara sect are written in Savraseni. An important source of knowledge of Prakrit is the Sanskrit drama. Kalidasa is included among many dramatists, who, in order to obtain a realistic effect, had the common people in their plays speak in Prakrit. See Sanskrit literature.
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We begin by reading some of the programmatic verses about Prakrit that are always found in anthologies of Prakrit poems, including verses from the Sattasaī, Chappaṇṇayagāhāō, and Vajjālaggaṁ.
