Language of the snakes : Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the language order of premodern India / Andrew Ollett.
"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 few centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the 'kavya movement,' and...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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Table of Contents:
- Prakrit in the language order of India
- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of power
- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of literature
- The forms of Prakrit literature
- Figuring Prakrit
- Knowing Prakrit
- Forgetting Prakrit.