Language of the Snakes : Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India
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 centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kāvya movement and once joined Sanskrit a...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2017
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