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Born in about 1820 Chaturvedi Shri Dwarka Prasad "Sharma" was a writer of Hindi prose who wrote more than 150 books but primarily is known for his translations of Valmiki Ramayana from Sanskrit to Hindi. He initially lived in Etawah in what is now Uttar Pradesh in India and eventually moved to Allahabad in what is now Uttar Pradesh. He is ...
Shauraseni Prakrit (Sanskrit: शौरसेनी प्राकृत, romanized: Śaurasenī Prākṛta) was a Middle Indo-Aryan language and a Dramatic Prakrit. Shauraseni was the chief language used in drama in medieval northern India. Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries, and represented a ...
Sanskrit and Hindi; Introduction has an English translation as well by Elliot M. Stern. Available from: Sañchālaka , Vedaśāstra Research Centre, Kedārghat , Vārānasi , India. Macdonell, Arthur Anthony (1996), A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary , Adyar, India: Munshiram Monoharlal Publishers, ISBN 81-215-0715-4
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...
The name Amarakosha derives from the Sanskrit words amara ("immortal") and kosha ("treasure, casket, pail, collection, dictionary"). According to Arthur Berriedale Keith, this is one of the oldest extant Sanskrit lexicons (kosha). [1] According to Keith, Amarasiṃha, who possibly flourished in the 6th century, " knew the Mahāyāna and used ...
Online resources: The British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts - Hinduism; Sacred-Texts: Hinduism; Sanskrit Documents Collection: Documents in ITX format of Upanishads, Stotras etc. GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages, a cumulative register of the numerous download sites for electronic texts in Indian languages.
Thus the name prākṛta indicates that they depend on Sanskrit for their origin and are not themselves the prakṛti (or originary languages, originating independent of Sanskrit): According to the Prākrṭa Prakāśa , an ancient Prakrit grammar, "Saṃskṛtam is the prakṛti (source) - and the language that originates in, or comes from ...
When Devanāgarī is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words. Native words typically use the basic consonant and native speakers know to suppress the vowel when it is conventional to do so. For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [59]