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A Comprehensive and Critical Dictionary of the Prakrit Languages with Special Reference to Jain Literature, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...sub-dialects of Prakrit. Not covered are...the extra-Indian Prakrits, and "some of the...other non-Jaina Prakrit literature, such as the dramatic Prakrits (both independent...dramas) and the Prakrit kavyas. The first...
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Carudatta: Ein indisches Schauspiel: Kritische Edition und Ubersetzung mil einer Studie des Prakrits der "Trivandrum-Dramen.".
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Ubersetzung mil einer Studie des Prakrits der "Trivandrum-Dramen...Wilhelm Printz's Bhasa's Prakrit, 1921, the obvious need for...provides an outline of the various Prakrit dialects not only of the Carudatta...Wilhelm Printz's Bhasa's Prakrit, until recently the most comprehensive...
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Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka, With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Tipitaka, With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen. By THOMAS OBERLIES. Indian Philology and South...knows very well the main European secondary sources on Pali and Prakrit. He sheds light on almost all topics he discusses, and hacking...
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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. By RICHARD SALOMON. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xxi + 378, figs...
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An ancient Indo-Aryan language breathes again
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 1/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...Bangalore, is working tirelessly to revive Prakrit, the lost language of the Indo-Aryan...original glory. The National Institute of Prakrit Studies and Research is based at the venue...them from Jainism's flourishing era. Prakrit, the predecessor to Sanskrit, had almost...
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Report- Muslim patronage of Bangla.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 2/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Although it originates from the Eastern Prakrit group of the Indo-Aryan family of languages...systematic oppression by the Sanskrit and Prakrit speaking people, the innocent indigenous...started speaking in a particular type of Prakrit known as Gouriya-Prakrit. The Gouriya...
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Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedantadesika in Their South Indian Tradition.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Visnu in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Maharastri Prakrit, arguing persuasively that such poems...three works, in Tamil, Sanskrit, and Prakrit, to the beloved form of Visnu as Devanayaka...In reading Sanskrit alongside Tamil and Prakrit, Hopkins argues for the resonances among...
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Studi Giainici.(Brief Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...knowledgeable in the various Prakrits and Apabhramsa, in addition...Jainism focused on the early Prakrit literatures, especially the...medieval works in Maharastri Prakrit, as his studies of NIA literature...three important Maharastri Prakrit texts, all published in the...
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Kalam gives away certificate of honour to 22 scholors.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/16/2003; 491 words
; ...to 22 scholars in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, Arabic and Persian and Maharishi Badrayan...seven scholars in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit and Persian. Among the 15 Sanskrit scholars...is the lone recipient of the Pali and Prakrit Certificate of Honour while there are...
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Vyavahara Bhasya Pithika: Acarya Gunabhadra's Parsvacaritram.(Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, vol. 4, and Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, vol. 26)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the last fifteen years researchers in Prakrit and Jainism have been heartened to see...on the cheda sutras, particularly the Prakrit nirykti, curni, and bhasya genres of...is an introduction (pithika) to the Prakrit verse commentary (bhasya), possibly...
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Prakrit
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Prakrit , any of a number...Iranian ). The Prakrits are usually classified...however, use the term Prakrit to include the Modern...is considered a Prakrit by some scholars...For example, the Prakrits were much simpler...
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Prakrit literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Prakrit literature By the 6th cent...were several, are called the Prakrits [Skt.,=natural]. One very important and early Prakrit was Pali (see Pali canon...literature generally called Prakrit is devoted to Jainism . The...
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Pandit of Kashmir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...they refer to themselves as Bhatta or Batta, which is the Prakrit word for "great scholars." There are no historical records...Pandits speak contains a larger number of words of Sanskrit-Prakrit derivation than the Persianized/Arabicized Koshur of the...
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Sanskrit literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...are the alternation of lyrical stanzas with prose dialogue and the use of Sanskrit for some characters and Prakrit for others (see Prakrit literature ). In Sanskrit drama the stories are borrowed from legend, and love is the usual theme. The...
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Pali canon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...most authoritative sacred texts. Pali, the language in which the canon is written, is a Prakrit (vernacular dialect) of classical Sanskrit (see Prakrit literature ). The word Pali literally means a "line" or "norm," hence the extended...
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