Prakrit, and the language order of premodern India
Ollett, Andrew
Prakrit, and the language order of premodern India / Andrew Ollett - New Delhi ;Premis Books 2018 - 308p. 24cm.
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
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 once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher
9789386552952
Variety Books Publishers & Distributors :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092
LIterature
Other Language literatures
East Indo-European & Celtic literatures
Prakrit literature -- History and criticism.
Language and culture -- India.
Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
891.3 OLL
Prakrit, and the language order of premodern India / Andrew Ollett - New Delhi ;Premis Books 2018 - 308p. 24cm.
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
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 once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher
9789386552952
Variety Books Publishers & Distributors :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092
LIterature
Other Language literatures
East Indo-European & Celtic literatures
Prakrit literature -- History and criticism.
Language and culture -- India.
Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
891.3 OLL
