...Richard H. Davis 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 . xxi, 378 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...

... Moussaieff , and Patwardhan M. V. . Edited by Ingalls Daniel H. H. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Ananthanarayana , Suryanarayana Hallimysore . 1973 . A Prākrit Reader: A Linguistic Introduction Based on Selections from Hāla's Sattasaī . Mysore : Central Institute of Indian...

...Deven M. Patel Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India . By Andrew Ollett . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . xi, 308 pp. ISBN: 9780520296220 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

.... One of these lost works is Bṛhatkathā (“The Great Romance”). Legend tells us that the poet Guṇāḍhya composed it in Paiśācī, an obscure dialect of Prakrit. Now it exists only as a title; but once, to some commentators, it was a famous and important work. Witness Govardhānācāry's high esteem...

... reconsideration of the origin and dating of the earliest Tamil devotional (bhakti) poetry as well. Unlike Dubianskii's focus on the subtle aesthetics of natural world and human relationship, Tieken reads akam poetry, against the backdrop of the Prakrit SattasaT, as the imaginative vision of a leisured urban class...

... were composed of a strange mixture of Tamil and Prakrit, "a strongly hybridised Tamil, an epigraphical jargon of Buddhist bhityus and /or Jaina munis." Mahadevan, using a new system of reading the characters, has shown conclusively that the inscriptions have much less Prakrit than had been thought...

... portray typical situations rife with appropriate feelings and sentiments, both expect the viewer/reader/listener to grasp the scene, create its mental image, and gradually arrive at a comprehension of its inner message (Siegfried Lienhard, A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit Pali Prakrit [Wiesbaden...

... of north and central India, on the analogy of Franklin Edgerton's "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit" (BHS) designation for a similar literary dialect. In detailed, scholarly fashion, Damsteegt's book describes and analyzes this language, which, like BHS, is essentially a Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA, or "Prakrit...

... Nattier, in the most comprehensive study of Buddhist theories of decline to date in any language, has culled virtually all the extant materials on the subject in the siltra literature, making exhaustive reference to classical sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Inner Asian Prakrits, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese...

... the Gandhari language philologically, and it seems that Brough's central interest lies here; together with H. W. Bailey, Brough now seems to emerge as an encyclopaedic authority on northwestern Prakrit. At some very few points, this reviewer does not quite follow Brough's historico-linguistic argument...

..., however, is the fact that many lyrics in both the introduction and the selections are not Sanskrit at all. In his search for svabhdvokti Masson has chosen verses from the Prakrit Gdbdkoso of Hala, the Prakrit anthology Vajjdlagga, Hemacandra's Prakrit 792 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES grammar, and other works...

... I consists of didactic parables and stories, and part II 194 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES consists of short "biographies" and an excerpt from a guidebook for pilgrims. The originals come from Sanskrit, various Prakrits, and at least one "medieval vernacular," and they range from the earliest period...

... that the paradoxes created by the cult of poetry are likely to play a significant role in shaping further developments in contemporary Chinese poetry. MARTHA ANN SELBY provides a context for the ancient South Asian poetical genre of Prakrit gathas, short poems that usually possess erotic meanings, and the Sanskrit...

.... Pachow's earlier comparative pratimoksa study, he accepts Roth's criticism of editing errors in Pachow and Mishra's published text of the Pratimoksa Sutra of the Mahasamghika. Also following Roth, he accepts the Sanskrit of this text as "the Prakrit-cum-quasi-Sanskrit of the Arya Mahasamghika...

... have a more "contemporary" ring to them, and read very well. Miller and Gitomer have also succeeded in the difficult task of contrasting the Sanskrit and Prakrit verses; Miller's rendering of the "songs" in the Sakuntala captures the exquisite simplicity of the Prakrit originals (for example, IV. 12...

..." ring to them, and read very well. Miller and Gitomer have also succeeded in the difficult task of contrasting the Sanskrit and Prakrit verses; Miller's rendering of the "songs" in the Sakuntala captures the exquisite simplicity of the Prakrit originals (for example, IV. 12), while Gitomer's rendering...

... in this language are two gold plates upon which are inscribed Buddhist religious texts in an archaic script. These were found at Maunggun in Burma some thirty years ago, and may be as early as the fifth century of the Christian Era. Apart from manuscripts written in Prakrit in the Kharosthi script, there are two...

.... 13.50. The primary aim of these two volumes is to convey the literary value of the Sanskrit and Prakrit plays attributed to Bhasa. Both the Raos and J. L. Masson offer non-technical summaries of the background and controversy surrounding the thirteen plays which T. Ganapati Sastri discovered in South...

... is to convey the literary value of the Sanskrit and Prakrit plays attributed to Bhasa. Both the Raos and J. L. Masson offer non-technical summaries of the background and controversy surrounding the thirteen plays which T. Ganapati Sastri discovered in South Travancore and began to publish in the Trivandrum...

... as "the Prakrit-cum-quasi-Sanskrit of the Arya Mahasamghika-Lokuttaravadins." Furthermore, the similarities between the language of the Mahdvastu, the Bhiksum Vinaya with which Roth worked, his own studies in the Bhiksu Pratimoksa Sutra, and the Mathura inscriptions edited by Luders and Janett lead him...