Jul 27, 2020 · literature. Jacobi used the term "Jain Prakrit" (or "Jain Maharashtri", as he called it) to denote the language of relatively late and relatively more Sanskrit-influenced narrative …

And what does the word “Prakrit” actually refer to in those texts? A particular literary language, in which literary texts such as the Gāhāsattasaī, the Taraṅgavaī, and the Rāvaṇavaha were …

Language of the Snakes thus offers a cultural history of Prakrit in contrast to the natural-history amework of previous studies of the language. It uses Prakrit to formulate a theory of literary …

V Prakrit, or apabhramsa described by Hemacandra in the twelfth century, and the earhest poetry of the Old Vernaculars. The oldest poem in Western Hindi is the Prithi Raj Rasau by Chand …

ding the Light on Prakrit by Vararuci. Lassen drew attention to the ambiguity of the term “Prakrit”: on the one hand, it referred to a group of closely related literary languages; on the other hand, …

Prakrit almost always uses the Sanskrit roots, its in- fluence being chiefly restricted to alterations and elisions of certain letters in the original word.

There are two major views concerning the way in which Sanskrit and Prakrit are associated. One holds that the original matter in question is the speech of the common people, unadorned by …