Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Prakrit is also the language of some Shaiva tantras and Vaishnava hymns. [19] Besides being the primary language of several texts, Prakrit also features as the language of low-class men and most women in the Sanskrit stage plays. [28] American scholar Andrew Ollett traces the origin of the Sanskrit Kavya to Prakrit poems. [29]
Gaudi Prakrit is the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit language used in Gauda or ancient Bengal. The language originates from the Old Eastern Indo-Aryan and is the historical ancestor of Bengali. It was originally considered as Prakrit till 400 AD, later its Apabhraṃśa appeared which is known as Gaudi Apabhransha
Prakrit (Sanskrit prākṛta ... Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods, Old Tamil (400 BCE – 700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600 ...
Maharashtri Prakrit was commonly spoken until 875 CE [1] [2] [3] and was the official language of the Satavahana dynasty. [6] Works like Karpūramañjarī and Gatha Saptashati (150 BCE) were written in it. Jain Acharya Hemachandra is the grammarian of Maharashtri Prakrit. Maharashtri Prakrit was the most widely used Prakrit language in western ...
The middle stage is represented by the various literary Prakrits, especially the Shauraseni language and the Maharashtri and Magadhi Prakrits. The term Prakrit is also often applied to Middle Indo-Aryan languages (prākṛta literally means 'natural' as opposed to saṃskṛta, which literally means
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit was a Middle Indo-Aryan language and a Dramatic Prakrit thought to have been spoken in modern-day Bihar & Eastern Uttar Pradesh and used in some early Buddhist and Jain drama. It was originally thought to be a predecessor of the vernacular Magadhi Prakrit, hence the name (literally "half-Magadhi").
The language used in around 70 Southern Brahmi inscriptions discovered in the 20th century have been identified as a Prakrit language. [ 161 ] [ 162 ] In English, the most widely available set of reproductions of Brahmi texts found in Sri Lanka is Epigraphia Zeylanica ; in volume 1 (1976), many of the inscriptions are dated to the 3rd–2nd ...
Magadhi Prakrit was spoken in the eastern Indian subcontinent, in a region spanning what is now eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. [3] [4] Associated with the ancient Magadha, it was spoken in present-day Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and eastern Uttar Pradesh under various apabhramsha dialects, [5] and used in some dramas to represent vernacular dialogue in Prakrit dramas.