Language of the Snakes Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

• Main Author: Ollett, Andrew (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
• Subjects: History; Asian history; prakrit; sanskrit; literary history; indian languages; indian literature; Jainism; Satavahana dynasty
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 at...