Prakrit (/ˈprɑːkrɪt/ PRAH-krit) is a group of vernacular classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the...

Magadhi Prakrit (Māgadhī) is of one of the three Dramatic Prakrits, the written languages of Classical-Medieval India following the decline of Pali. It...

Maharashtri Prakrit (Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta) is a Prakrit language of ancient as well as medieval India.[better source needed] Maharashtri Prakrit was commonly...

Shauraseni Prakrit (Sanskrit: शौरसेनी प्राकृत, IAST: Śaurasenī Prākṛta, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɕɐurɐseːniː praːkr̩t̪ɐ]) was a Middle Indo-Aryan language...

Proto-Indo-Aryan was very close to Vedic Sanskrit, though some of the later Prakrits retain features that had been lost from Vedic Sanskrit, showing that they...

Khasa or Khasa Prakrit (also known as Khas Prakrit, Sanskrit Khasa, Himalayan Prakrit, Northern Prakrit, Khas Kura) is a Prakrit language of medieval...

Dramatic Prakrits were those standard forms of Prakrit dialects that were used in dramas and other literature in medieval India. They may have once been...

Sanskrit). This early variety transitioned in medieval India into Shauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from Sanskrit apabhraṃśa "corrupt"), which emerged...

Ardhamagadhi Prakrit was a Middle Indo-Aryan language and a Dramatic Prakrit thought to have been spoken in modern-day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and used...

are closely related. They share a common, predominantly Sanskrit- and Prakrit-derived, vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually...

from the dramatic Prakrits, and further from Sanskrit. An example is Hindustani jībh (जीभ جیبھ) "tongue", inherited through Prakrit jibbhā, from Sanskrit...

Kamarupi Prakrit is the postulated Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) Prakrit language used in ancient Kamarupa (5th–12th century). This language has been derived...

additional official language in the state of Goa. Derived from Maharashtri Prakrit, it is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India, with 83 million speakers...

Indo-Aryan languages (or Middle Indic languages, sometimes conflated with the Prakrits, which are a stage of Middle Indic) are a historical group of languages...

Gaudi Prakrit is the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit language used in Gauda or ancient Bengal. The language originates from the Old Eastern Indo-Aryan and is...

Ashokan Prakrit, also known as Asokan Prakrit or Aśokan Prakrit (IAST: Aśoka Prākṛta), is the Middle Indo-Aryan dialect continuum used in the Edicts of...

Prakrit Bharati Academy is a public library established on 21 February 1977 in Jaipur with the prime goal to publish books in Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi...

classical language. It traces its linguistic roots to the Eastern Magadhi Prakrit, evolving through stages such as Proto Odia (7th–9th century CE), Old Odia...

kingdoms of India mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. It is generally grouped with the Prakrits, with which it shares some linguistic...

(Magadhi Prakrit) With the advent of the Indo-Aryans in the 3rd century BCE, Bengal was gradually being Sanskritised. The varieties of Prakrit spoken in...

Monumental Prakrit was a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect used as a lingua franca in Indian inscriptions from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. It developed...

argued that the true or geographical name of the Pali language was Magadhi Prakrit, and that because pāḷi means "line, row, series", the early Buddhists extended...

vernacular colloquial dialects (Prakrits) continued to evolve, meaning the language co-existed with the numerous Prakrits of ancient India. As the Indian...

and songs. The language's core vocabulary is derived from Prakrit and Sanskrit (via Prakrit), with substantial loanwords from Persian and Arabic (via...

words appear in Prakrit inscriptions dating to c. 4th century BCE, found in Bhattiprolu, Andhra Pradesh. Telugu label inscriptions and Prakrit inscriptions...

Nadu) area of the western Guntur district. All the early documents are in Prakrit, and scholars find similarities in palaeography and language with the Satavahanas...

extent, Prakrit grammar. Literary Prakrit seems to have prevailed in Karnataka since ancient times.[verification needed] Speakers of vernacular Prakrit may...

derive from the Kamarupi Prakrit, an eastern variety of the Magadhi Prakrit, though an admixture with the Sauraseni Prakrit is also hypothesised by one...

They historically form a dialect continuum that descends from the Middle Prakrits. Located in the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone includes the Dehlavi (Delhi)...

the Vedic language, is the earliest attested form of the Sanskrit and Prakrit languages: members of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language...

Gandhārī was an Indo-Aryan Prakrit language attested mainly in texts dated between the 3rd century BCE and 4th century CE in the region of Gandhāra, in...

vowels and aspirated consonants, is a Prakrit similar to Magadhi, a regional associate of the Middle-Indian Prakrits that had been spoken during the lifetime...

Sanskrit gāthā; Khmer: គាថា; Thai: คาถา; also spelled khatha) refers to any Prakrit and Pali verses in general, or specifically the arya meter of Sanskrit...

Indo-Aryan languages. Linguists describe Konkani as a fusion of a variety of Prakrit vernacular languages. This could be attributed to the confluence of immigrants...

Jacobi, Herman (2005). Vimalsuri's Paumachariyam (2nd ed.). Ahemdabad: Prakrit Text Society. Jain, Pannalal (2000). Hiralal Jain, A.N. Upadhaye (ed.)...

the Ramayana and the oldest work of literature written in Maharashtri Prakrit. Although scholars' opinion and traditional beliefs differ on his timeline...

along with Dravidian clans such as the Velir, prior to the migration of Prakrit speakers. One of the first written references to the island is found in...

northern dialects cannot understand them. Maldivian is a descendant of Elu Prakrit and is closely related to Sinhala, but not mutually intelligible with it...

its first grammar in 1881. Chatterji grouped Maithili with the Magadhi Prakrit. Maithili varies greatly in dialects. Sotipura also called Central Maithili...

Paishachi Prakrit was one of these Prakrit languages, which was spoken in north and north-western India and Punjabi developed from this Prakrit. Later in...

language to Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu. This status is given to languages that have...

(Hindkuwan). Like other Lahnda varieties, Hindko is derived from the Shauraseni Prakrit. Hindko to some extent is mutually intelligible with Punjabi and Saraiki...

Eḷa, also Elu, Hela or Helu Prakrit, was a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE, that was used in Sri Lanka. It was ancestral to...

a number of striking archasisms, which had already disappeared in most Prakrit dialects... There is not a single common feature distinguishing Dardic...

Rama Jain to undertake systematic research and publication of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Apabhramsha texts and covering subjects like religion, philosophy...

historical stages: Old IA (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) Middle IA (various Prakrits and Apabhramshas) New IA (modern languages such as Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali...

and Odisha in eastern India, and in the Terai region of Nepal. Magadhi Prakrit was the ancestor of Magahi, from which the latter's name derives. It boasts...

with later forms of its offshoots. Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit were given the classical language status in October 2024. Upon dropping...

Apabhraṃśa (Sanskrit: अपभ्रंश, IPA: [ɐpɐbʱrɐ̃ˈɕɐ], Prakrit: अवहंस Avahaṃsa) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer...

from Prakrit – the spoken language of common people in ancient times. The literary language was Sanskrit which has a close relationship with Prakrit. It...

(bhāṣāsama), that is, it can be read in two languages simultaneously: Prakrit and Sanskrit. The canonical Pali literature includes Buddhist discourses...

text on cosmology surviving in a medieval Sanskrit translation of the Prakrit original, which is internally dated to AD 458 (Saka era 380), uses a decimal...

follow the Apabhraṃśa stage—i.e. those Apabhraṃśas derived from Magadhi Prakrit. After different business and trading classes, including the Jains, rose...

Aramaic sounds not found in Prakrit. For example, Aramaic lacks the phonetic retroflex feature that appears among Prakrit dental stops, such as ḍ, and...

but peculiar to either Epic Sanskrit or to Prakrit. The word is originally derived from the Sanskrit/Prakrit root gai, which means 'to speak, sing, recite...

successors of the Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) language Gandhari (also Gandhari Prakrit), but along with Bashir, Zoller concludes that the family tree model alone...

Girmityas Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhi Prakrit and Awadhi is descended from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa...

earliest Buddhist texts were composed and transmitted in Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrits, later Indian Buddhists translated their canonical works into Sanskrit...

contained in the canonical Jain Agamas, which are written in Ardhamagadhi, a Prakrit (Middle Indo-Aryan) language. Various commentaries were written on these...

karahi (a type of pot used in the Indian subcontinent) derives from the Prakrit word kataha (कटाह), being mentioned in the Sanskrit text Sushruta Samhita...

and Central India. The Western Hindi languages evolved from Sauraseni Prakrit. The most-spoken language in the Western Hindi language family is Hindustani...

Āryā metre is a metre used in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Marathi verses. A verse in āryā metre is in four metrical lines called pādas. Unlike the majority...

Indologist, philologist, author and a scholar of Prakrit, Apabhramsha, Sanskrit, Hindi and Shauraseni Prakrit languages. He is known for his critical studies...

Sthananga Sutra (Sanskrit: Sthānāṅgasūtra; Prakrit: Ṭhāṇaṃgasutta) (c. 4th–3rd century BCE) forms part of the first eleven Angas of the Jaina Canon which...

to provide better clarity on what the Prakrit words meant, and for resolving doubts about homonyms in Prakrit. It was an ancient Indian tradition of...

Abahattha, which descends from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa and ultimately from Magadhi Prakrit. The exact scope of the Eastern branch of the Indo-Aryan languages is controversial...

son Tipu Sultan were appointed to this position. The word Dalavayi is a Prakrit or vernacular form of the Sanskrit word Dalapati (which literally means:...

during the times of the Khasa Kingdom. The language evolved from Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Apabhraṃśa. Following the decline of the Khasa Kingdom, it was divided...

influence of a linguistic tradition stemming from the proto-canonical Prakrit of the early oral tradition. While there are widely differing theories...

originated from ancient Prakrit. According to professor Keshri Kumar Singh, Nagpuri is an Apabhramsha and descendant of Magadhi Prakrit in his book "Nagpuri...

Τάξιλα, romanized: Táxila), and its other major town was Puṣkalāvatī (Prākrit: Pukkalāoti; Ancient Greek: Πευκελαῶτις, romanized: Peukelaôtis) or Puṣkarāvatī...

Pradesh. It adds diacritics to several letters for sounds not found in Prakrit, producing ṉ ṟ ṛ ḷ. Secondly, in many of the inscriptions the inherent...

Bahubali (IAST: Bāhubalī, lit. 'one with strong arms') was the son of Rishabhanatha (the first tirthankara of Jainism) and the brother of the chakravartin...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Most of the languages of Bihar, the third most populous state of India, belong to the Bihari subgroup of the Indo-Aryan family. Chief among them are Bhojpuri...

literary Prakrit, Maharashtri Prakrit, used in the Gaha Sattasai anthology. Considered an ancestor language of modern Marathi, Maharashtri Prakrit was adopted...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Lydian Sumerian Ugarit Classical Ancient Greek Ancient Hebrew Ancient Prakrit Aramaic Classical Chinese Classical Latin Parthian Phrygian Old Persian...

down orally until later dates. Ashoka used the expression Dhaṃma Lipi (Prakrit in the Brahmi script: 𑀥𑀁𑀫𑀮𑀺𑀧𑀺, "Inscriptions of the Dharma") to...

about six miles away. The Mahasthan Brahmi Inscription is written in the Prakrit language in the Brahmi script. It details an administrative order from...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

languages are adapted from the Sanskrit variation (apabhramsa) through Pali or Prakrit. The variations evolved for easier pronunciation in popular usage. "List...

centuries[citation needed] during the Delhi Sultanate. It developed from Shauraseni Prakrit. During the Muslim rule in India, the language began acquiring loanwords...

Vaishnava songs. He had knowledge of, and composed works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and Maithili. Vidyapati's influence was not just restricted...

Bihari languages are considered to be direct descendants of the Magadhi Prakrit. Bhojpuri is classified as an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language because it has...

languages including Pali, Prakrit and Sanskrit. He holds Triple (3) Doctor of Literature(D.Litt.) in Sanskrit, Pali-Prakrit & Hindi. His career has spanned...

consecrated several Jain temples and had written several works in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Gujarati. The Soma-Saubhagya Kavya, Guru Guna Ratnakara-Kavya and several...

Northern and Central India. Eastern Hindi languages evolved from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, which is thought to be transitional between Sauraseni and Magadhi. Eastern...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Dr A.N. Upadhye (6 February 1906 – 08 Oct 1975) was a scholar of Prakrit, Jainology and dedicated himself to Jaina studies and wrote many books on Jainology...

of Vindhyas in the Middle Ages. Saurashtra, an offshoot of Shauraseni Prakrit, once spoken in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, is now chiefly spoken...

of the expected *adinisbąąs (a-di-ni-sh-ł-bąąs) (a- is reduced to -). Prakrit lost many of its consonant clusters from Sanskrit to aspirates due to metathesis...

Western Hindi Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhi Prakrit and Awadhi is descended from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa...

Indeed, Vedic Sanskrit is very close to Proto-Indo-Aryan. Some of the Prakrits display a few minor features derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan that had already...

Makkhali Gosala (Pāli; BHS: Maskarin Gośāla; Jain Prakrit sources: Gosala Mankhaliputta) or Manthaliputra Goshalak (6th or 5th century BCE) was an ascetic...

Rajashekhara (IAST: Rājaśekhara; fl. 10th century) was a Maharashtri Prakrit and Sanskrit poet, dramatist and critic. He was the court poet of the Pratiharas...

Mauritius Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhi Prakrit and Awadhi is descended from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit Bhojpuri is descended from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa...

related to Saraiki and Punjabi language. It is descended from Shauraseni Prakrit, which gradually developed into Apabhraṃśa and then into Early Sindhi....

a member of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages and evolved from Magadhi Prakrit; hence its origin is associated with the Magadha realm. The Government...

Sūtrakṛtāṅga (सूत्रकृताङ्ग; also known in Prakrit as Sūyagaḍaṃga सूयगडंग) is the second Angas of the 12 main aṅgās of the Jain Svetambara canon. According...

The Waithali kingdom (Rakhine: ဝေသာလီ ; Magadhi Prakrit: Vesali) was an ancient kingdom that flourished in the Arakan region of present-day Rakhine State...

Punjabi, Gujarati as well as Pali, Prakrit, and Apabhramsa. He had a great knowledge of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. As a student of Sanskrit, steeped...

and ancestral base for the Hindustani language descended from Shauraseni Prakrit that is mainly spoken by local people in Western Uttar Pradesh, across...

poetics or rhetoric (alaṃkāra, lit. ornament). It also gives a taste of the Prakrit language (a major component in every Sanskrit drama) in easily accessible...

Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Indo-Aryan Early forms Prakrit Khasa Prakrit Subdivisions Central Western Eastern Language codes Glottolog indo1310...

Indo-Aryan languages. It was written during a period when the northeastern Prākrit languages had not yet differentiated into later forms, or they were just...

Sanskrit chāyā and commentary, Ṭhakkura Pherū's Rayaṇaparīkkhā: A Medieval Prakrit Text on Gemmology (Aligarh: Viveka, 1984). Itihas ki Amarbel Oswal, Mangilal...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

other inscriptions of Ashoka are in Indian language (various forms of Prakrits) with the exception of the Kandahar Greek Edict of Ashoka, and were only...

the east to Tumshuq in the west. A body of loanwords and names found in Prakrit documents from the Lop Nur basin have been dubbed Tocharian C (Kroränian)...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

Vamsa dynasty". A Critical Study of Paumacariyam. Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa. Retrieved 24 April 2026. Chandra, K. R. (1970)....

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

gods and goddesses with inscriptions in Tamil or Prakrit. According to Gupta, these use of Prakrit language on the coins may reflect the non-Tamil origins...

a French Indologist who lives in Paris. She is a scholar of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism. She was previously a student of...

Chatterji (1926) places Chittagonian in the eastern Vangiya group of Magadhi Prakrit and notes that all Bengali dialects were independent of each other and...

in the modern-day Indian subcontinent. The word crore derives from the Prakrit word kroḍi, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit koṭi (कोटि), denoting...

inscription is in a script much closer to standard Brahmi), written in Prakrit. The Bhattiprolu inscription also shows systemic but not paleographic similarity...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Maharashtri language may refer to: Maharashtri Prakrit, a Prakrit language (Middle Indo-Aryan) once spoken in the Indian state of Maharashtra Marathi language...

Indian language are composed in non-standardized and archaic forms of Prakrit. Prakrit inscriptions were written in Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts, which even...

Vyākhyāprajñapti. This version also replaces Ardhamagadhi नं with Maharashtrian Prakrit णं. In condensed edition of Avashyakasutra (dated circa last quarter of...

number of characteristics in common, for example the preservation of the Prakrit double consonants in stressed syllables. The literary standards that have...

theoretical treatise on classical Indian dance and drama) Elu (Sri Lankan Prakrit): Sīhalattakathā or Hela Atuwā (Pali commentaries of Buddhist teachings...

Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit (EHS) was a hybridized dialect of Prakrit and Sanskrit used in Indian inscriptions from the 1st century CE to the 4rd century...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Lohgadwadi. In September 2019 an inscription in Jain Brahmi script in Prakrit language dating back to the 1st or 2nd century B.C., was discovered by...

and Western Rajasthani languages which developed from Sanskrit and the Prakrit Apabhraṃśas, and was spoken around 8-14th centuries in Western India. The...

Nirvana Kanda is an ancient Prakrit Jain composition that describes the sacred sites where Jain sages have attained Nirvana. It is also termed Nirvana...

Malla (Prakrit languages: 𑀫𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀈, romanized: Mallaī; Pali: Malla; Sanskrit: मल्ल, romanized: Malla) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern...

Videha (Prākrit: 𑀯𑀺𑀤𑁂𑀳 Videha; Pāli: Videha; Sanskrit: Videha) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

practice. The earliest record of Digambara beliefs is contained in the Prakrit Suttapahuda of Kundakunda. The Svetambara tradition, in texts like the...

The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the kshatriya caste. The earliest inscriptions in Prakrit are those...

Ardhamagadhi, which agreed partly with Sauraseni and partly with Magadhi Prakrit, could be the basis of Awadhi. The closest relative of Awadhi is the Bagheli...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

century BCE 4th century BCE Kusinara, Pava Prakrit India Vajjika League 6th century BCE 468 BCE Vesali Prakrit, Sanskrit India   Nepal Anuradhapura Kingdom...

northeast of Kosala, and west of Malla. Capital Pipphalivana Common languages Prakrit Sanskrit Religion Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism Government...

mentions him as the 17th ruler of the Satavahana dynasty. The Maharashtri Prakrit poem by Kouhala, Lilavai (c. 800 CE) describes his romance with a princess...

("Slaying of the Gauda king"), also known as Gauḍavaha, is an 8th-century Prakrit-language epic poem by Vākpatirāja. It narrates the exploits of the poet's...

The Gurjar Apabhraṃśa is one of the many Apabhraṃśas to descend from the Prakrits. It was spoken in the western part of India, throughout the Chaulukya dynasty...

including Arabic, Kannada, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Prakrit and the Telugu language. The awards come under the umbrella of the language...

and Rohingya. Similarities of the Chakma language with Sanskrit, Maghadi Prakrit and with Pali is visible referring it to be a classical language. This...

or "Pālave" is (a Prakrit form) "Pallava" Pālave Maratha" refers to the Pālave or Pallava Maratha family, whose name is a Prakrit form of the historical...

Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script...

features. The Thar language may have derivation from Middle Indo‑Aryan Prakrit forms, suggesting a long history of linguistic formation rather than a...

language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently,...

from 788 – 816 C.E. He was also a noted scholar in Kannada, Sanskrit and Prakrit. He succeeded to the Ganga throne during a time when the Rashtrakuta were...

combination of an abbot and a brigadier. The Hindi word mahant comes from Prakrit mahanta-, Sanskrit mahat (accusative case: mahantam) meaning "great". Other...

etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. Urdu has borrowed words from Persian...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

earliest oral texts were transmitted in Middle Indo-Aryan languages called Prakrits, such as Pali, through the use of communal recitation and other mnemonic...

Citta (Pali and Sanskrit: चित्त, or in Prakrit script 𑀘𑀺𑀢𑁆𑀢, pronounced chitta [t͡ɕit̚.tɐ́](key)) is one of three overlapping terms used in the Nikaya...

books pertaining to Jainology and Indology in English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhramsha. It was established in Mumbai, India in 1912 by its founder...

much later than Prakrit inscriptions, although Prakrit is considered as a descendant of the Sanskrit language. This is because Prakrit, in its multiple...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

philology. He was regarded as one of the leading scholars in Jaina and Prakrit studies. He was a member of the Council of the Pali Text Society. Following...

subcontinent during the Middle Ages. It developed from an Apabhraṃśa of Magadhi Prakrit around 650 AD, and the first Bengali literary works date from the 8th century...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

Institute of Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa. pp. 167–169. Chandra, K. R. (1970). A Critical Study of Paumacariyam. Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

Bangladesh India Anga Kingdom 1100 BCE[citation needed] 530 BCE Champa Prakrit, Sanskrit India Vidarbha Kingdom 1100 BCE[citation needed] 500 BCE Kaundinyapur...

14th century, 'Hindu' appeared in several texts in Persian, Sanskrit and Prakrit within India, and subsequently in vernacular languages, often in comparative...

for Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī as well as the major figures of speech and the Prakrit language. Another historically and chronologically important text is Raghuvamsa...

the earliest written records, that is, the Edicts of Ashoka, is Prakrit. Besides Prakrit, the Ashokan edicts are also written in Greek and Aramaic. Moreover...

century) < Maghadi Prakrit Modern Bengali < Middle Bengali (13th–16th century) < Eastern Apabhraṃśa (7th–13th century) < Maghadi Prakrit Farsi (modern Persian)...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

century Status Chinese vassal Capital Loulan Common languages Gandhari Prakrit (administrative) Religion Buddhism Government Monarchy History   • Vassalage...

The languages used include Punjabi and its dialects, Lahnda, regional Prakrits, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Hindustani languages (Braj Bhasha, Bangru (Haryanvi)...

for Cultural Studies. p. 131. ISBN 9788187420200. "Prakrit Jain Institute Research Bulletin". Prakrit Jain Institute Research Bulletin 3: 42. 1982. Surendranath...

(Sanskrit and Prakrit) literature. It sets forth a "very convincing argument" that the themes of southern poets were assimilated into the Prakrit and classical...

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Malkheda originally known as Manyakheta (IAST: Mānyakheṭa, Prakrit: "Mannakheḍa"), and also known as Malkhed, is a town in Karnataka, India. It is located...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

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following words and declared about the ownership of the pilgrimage site: - In Prakrit: - इक्को वि नमुक्कारो, जिणवर-वसहस्स वद्धमाणस्स, संसार-सागराओ, तारेइ नरं...

Uzbekistan. Another view-point is that Thakkura is a loan word from the Prakrit language. Scholars have suggested differing meanings for the word, i.e...

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1908) was a German Indologist born in Breslau. He wrote a textbook on Prakrit grammar in 1900 and became a professor of comparative linguistics and Indology...

this language and there are around 20 lakhs people. The Eastern Magadhi Prakrit gave rise to four historical dialects—Radhi, Varendri, Kamarupi and Vanga...

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apabhransa, the literary languages of India that derived from Sanskrit and the Prakrits. This developed into the desa bhāṣā, or popular languages, such as Old...

century, while a few later ones include Sanskrit inscriptions along with Prakrit inscriptions related to Hinduism and Buddhism. After the 3rd century CE...

Arthaśāstra is Sanskrit, but the Mauryans used Prākrit. This argument is based on the fact that Aśoka used Prākrit for his inscriptions. However, since the...

dialects (Prakrits) continued to evolve. Sanskrit co-existed with numerous other Prakrit languages of ancient India. The oldest attested Prakrits are the...

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located close to the north of Magadha Capital Kesaputta Common languages Prakrit Sanskrit Religion Historical Vedic religion Government Republic Rājā  ...

originates from Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀤𑀺 jādi derived from Sanskrit yāti ("to move"; root yā), however has its perfective form originating from another Prakrit word 𑀕𑀬...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Sanskrit, which shows that the coin is not early ; the survival of the Prakrit rana in Kharoshthi on the reverse shows that it cannot be very late." A...

is frequently used in Rajasthani, which also occurs in vedic and some prakrits, is pronounced by placing the tongue on the top of the hard palate and...

Etymologically, the name is derived from rāya, a term found in Shauraseni Prakrit, which itself is originates from the Sanskrit term rājan. Rai is a linguistic...

(1685-1948) Common languages Gujarati Old Gujarati Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Prakrit English Maharaja Rana   • 10 December 1908-15 February 1948 Natwarsinhji...

Sanskrit term aśva, Prakrit assa and Avestan aspa means horse. The name Aśvaka/Aśvakan or Assaka is derived from the Sanskrit Aśva or Prakrit Assa and it denotes...

Comparative Religion & Philosophy; Prachya Vidya evam Bhasha (Sanskrit, Prakrit); Yoga and Science of Living; Nonviolence and Peace; Social Work; Education;...

spelt as Hindostan or Hindoostan in English. The word was also used in Prakrit and Sanskrit languages widely. Hindustan is derived from the Persian word...

The Licchavis of Vaishali (Māgadhī Prakrit: 𑀮𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀯𑀺 Licchavi; Pāli: Licchavi; Sanskrit: ऋक्षवी Ṛkṣavī; English: "Bear Clan") were an ancient Indo-Aryan...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

made by God, was Prakrit born of thieves and knaves? Let these errings be of vanity alone. God is no partisan of tongues. To Him Prakrit and Sanskrit are...

known to the ancient Greeks. Tabrobane is suggested to be derived from Prakrit and Pali "Tambapanni"., where the Sanskrit form of it is "Tamraparni"....

boiling milk and producing thick cream. Karahi or kadahi comes from the Prakrit word kataha, which is mentioned in texts like the Ramayana and Sushruta...

(1999). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 35....

paper sent to him by Lele that described the discovery of the Sanskrit and Prakrit inscriptions at the 'Bhoja Shala'. The use was established at that point...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

ɦɑːt̪ʰiːgumpʰɑː) is a Jain inscription consisting of seventeen lines written in Prakrit language incised in Brahmi script in a cavern called Hathigumpha in Udayagiri...

settlers also adopted anthill worship, which was translated to Santara in Prakrit by them. The first wave of Vedic people came and settled from Northern...

them describe incidents from that era. They are written in Brahmi script (Prakrit), which are believed to be the first stage in the evolution of Sinhala...

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Nāropā (c. 1016 - 1100 CE) (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Nāropāda, Naḍapāda or Abhayakirti) was an Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha. He was the disciple of Tilopa and...

ISBN 978-81-8205-062-4. The name 'Gujarat' is said to have been derived from the Prakrit Gujjar Ratta or Gujjar Rashtra-the land of Gujjars a tribe that entered...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 265–267...

District, Bangladesh. The text is written in the Brahmi script in the Prakrit language. The text denotes an administrative order to store oil and rice...

languages of the general population of northern India are referred to as Prakrits. Many of the sixteen kingdoms had merged into four major ones by the time...

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or Vācanācārya Jinabhadragaṇī Kṣamāśramaṇa was Jain ascetic author of Prakrit and Sanskrit texts. Jinabhadra (520-623 AD) was a Śvetāmbara Jain monk...

languages closest to it. They are ultimately descended from Shauraseni Prakrit. It is the official language of Gujarat state as well as Diu, Daman and...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Daulatsagarsuri (1920 – 17 February 2024) was a Jain ascetic, philosopher, and a revered saint belonging to the Śvetāmbara sect. He was the head of the...

represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit, and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

been found written and cited in a stray manner in older languages such as Prakrit and Pali. They are quotations of worldly wisdom. In Duhasuktavali it is...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Orientalism. The institute is well known for its collection of old Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts. This institute is of a public trust registered under Act XXI...

alongside Paruroctonus conclusus, both species having come to the attention of Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes when observations uploaded to iNaturalist could...

Indian literature Ancient Ancient Meitei Pali Prakrit Sanskrit Tamil Tamil Sangam Vedic Sanskrit Early Medieval Bengali Kannada (Extinct Kannada) Malayalam...

sources found in archeological inscriptions on Ashokan edicts written in Prakrit and using the Brahmi script. They are also known from the literary sources...

Ācārya Hemacandra, Jaipur: Prakrit Bharti Academy Jain, Jagdish Chandra; Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath (1994). Jainism and Prakrit in Ancient and Medieval...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

primarily in Chinese translation, with substantial material also surviving in Prakrit/Sanskrit and lesser but still significant amounts surviving in Gāndhārī...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

whereas Urdu is a central Indo-Aryan language (mediated by Shauraseni Prakrit). They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and...

of Sanskrit and Prakrit and knew several languages including Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and English. He wrote in languages such as Prakrit, Sanskrit, and...

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however. The building contains a range of stone panels with Sanskrit and Prakrit inscriptions collected from different places and installed on the walls...

monarchs in this dynasty. Magadha Greater Magadha Magadha period Magadhi Prakrit List of Indian monarchs Cunningham, Alexander (1871). The Ancient Geography...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Inscriptions of Dasaratha (grandson of Ashoka) English translation Prakrit in Brahmi script (original text of the Nagarjuni Caves) Inscription of Gopika...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Nāya (Prākrit: 𑀦𑀸𑀬 Nāya; Pāli: Nāta; Sanskrit: Jñāta) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern South Asia (modern-day Bihar) whose existence...

"Hvatanai" (from which the name Khotan) in contemporary documents. Many Prakrit terms were borrowed from Khotanese into the Tocharian languages. Khotanese...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Yakshis (Sanskrit: यक्षिणी, IAST: Yakṣiṇī or Yakṣī, IPA: [jɐkʂiɳiː, jɐkʂiː]; Prakrit: Yakkhiṇī or Yakkhī, IPA: [jɐkːʰiɳiː, jɐkːʰiː]) are a class of female nature...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

ISBN 969-8023-11-9. Burrow, T. (1936). "The Dialectical Position of the Niya Prakrit". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 8 (2/3):...

authored a respected Sanskrit commentary on the Amaru Shataka and the Prakrit Gaha Sattasai. Śubharāja 15th/16th century Shudra Rūpamañjarīpariṇayaḥ...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

kingdom. He was proficient in six languages including Dingal, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhraṃśa, and was a scholar of grammar, logic, history and politics...

Indian literature Ancient Ancient Meitei Pali Prakrit Sanskrit Tamil Tamil Sangam Vedic Sanskrit Early Medieval Bengali Kannada (Extinct Kannada) Malayalam...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit. Sen was born on 16 January 1900 in a prominent Kayastha family...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

classification Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Indo-Aryan Marathi–Konkani Early form Maharashtri Prakrit Language codes Glottolog indo1325...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 182–183...

demos of tracks appearing on the album and removed "2099" and "Magadhi Prakrit (Slow)". "On Yer Bike!" – 5:09 "2099" – 0:51 "Out of the Wild" – 3:40 "Walking...

Bhumaka (Kharosthi: 𐨧𐨂𐨨𐨐 Bhu-ma-ka, Bhu-ma-ka; Brahmi: 𑀪𑀽𑀫𑀓 Bhū-ma-ka, Bhū-ma-ka; r. 1st century CE) was a Western Kshatrapa ruler of the early...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Nanadesi guild. Beyond Tamil and Sanskrit, inscriptions written in Pali, Prakrit, and local languages using South Indian-derived scripts document the movement...

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Name Native (Prakrit) name Sanskrit form (if relevant) Notes Agaraju Agarāju N/A Possibly one of the earlier kings in the dynasty Agnimitra Agimita Agnimitra...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

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SATRAPS MALAVAS YAUDHEYAS INDO- PARTHIANS Capital Banavasi Common languages Prakrit[citation needed] Kannada Post Kadamba rule Religion Buddhism[citation needed]...

Sanskrit, Manipravaḷam (a Sanskritised form of literary Tamil), Tamil and Prakrit. He was an Indian philosopher, Sri Vaishnava guru, and one of the most...

capital city of Kamata kingdom, as the western branch of the Kamarupi Prakrit, whereas the eastern branch developed into Early Assamese. Since the 16th...

Post Vedic period. Status Republic of the Vajjika League Common languages Prakrit Religion Historical Vedic religion Buddhism Jainism Demonym Vajjika Government...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Lienhard, Siegfried (1984). A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit (A History of Indian Literature Vol. III), p. 116. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden...

Pañca-Parameṣṭhi, by their initials A+A+A+U+M (o3m). The Dravyasamgraha quotes a Prakrit line: oma ekākṣara pañca-parameṣṭhi-nāmā-dipam tatkathamiti cheta "arihatā...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Granthamālā published over 48 Digambara Jain texts, mostly written in Prakrit, Apabhramśa or Sanskrit. He ran the Manikacandra Jain Granthamālā on an...

languages Bengali-Assamese Bengali Sundarbanī Bengali Early forms Gaudi Prakrit Old Bengali Middle Bengali Writing system Bengali script Language codes...

Arihant (Jain Prakrit: अरिहन्त, Sanskrit: अर्हत् arhat, lit. 'conqueror') is a jiva (soul) who has conquered inner passions such as attachment, anger...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Literature at the University of Washington. Salomon is a Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit-languages scholar, known for his studies on Indian epigraphy. He is also...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Tilopa (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Talika or Tilopadā) was a Buddhist tantric mahasiddha who lived in northeast India around the 10th century -- perhaps from...

Buvaneshvara, and Shrīparvata. Mark S. G. Dyczkowski holds the Gaha Sattasai, a Prakrit poem written by Hāla (3rd to 4th century CE), to be one of the first extant...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 148,...

Siegfried Lienhard (1984). A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 119. ISBN 978-3-447-02425-9. Retrieved 23...

Eastern Mediterranean, Near East and beyond such as the Sanskrit Yavana and Prakrit Yona. In Greek mythology, the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Chandra Gupta II. Pravarasena II composed the Setubandha in Maharashtri Prakrit. A few verses of the Gaha Sattasai are also attributed to him. He shifted...

etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. The new court language developed...

Sankrityayan made numerous audio recordings of texts in Sanskrit and Prakrit. His family joined him in Leningrad, and he later documented his experiences...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

on the Delhi-Topra pillar. Only one language was used on the pillars: Prakrit in the Brahmi script. A few derived inscriptions were made on rock in Aramaic...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Eastern Iranian language belonging to the Saka language, and Gandhari Prakrit, an Indo-Aryan language related to Sanskrit. There is debate as to how...

uncommon words and knowledge base and dictionaries for Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, Maharashtri Prakrit, and Sanskrit, devotional hymns (stavan, stuti, sajjhay, or mantra)...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Rajendrasuri wrote, collected and edited some Jain works. He compiled the Prakrit dictionary, Abhidhānarājaindrakōśa, in seven volumes with 9,200 pages describing...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia–Bengali-Assamese Bengali-Assamese Early form Magadhi Prakrit Language codes Glottolog gaud1237  Gauda–Kamrupa...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

British Museum in London. Mathura lion capital with addorsed lions and Prakrit inscriptions in Kharoshthi script Fragments of stone well railings with...

and elder brother, Bhanwar Lal Nahata, were acknowledged authorities on Prakrit literature, Jain canonical literature and scriptures. The family has a...

Perfect Law), The Central Jaina Publishing House Niyamsaar (Niyamasara) in Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujarati, June 2006 Jain, Vijay K. (2019). Ācārya...

Puraskar Cinema Music Writers Poets Related topics Nepali Wikipedia Bhanu Jayanti Nepal Literature Festival Khasa Prakrit language Category Media Wiktionary...

Erattar is a tributary of the Kosars, who later became Maha Lathilal (Prakrit) or Maharashtran (Sanskrit). The historian Mr. Burnell also acknowledges...

Kuvalaya-mālā ("Garland of Blue Water Lilies") is a 779 CE Prakrit-language novel written by the Jain monk Uddyotana-sūri in Jabalipura of Gurjara-Pratihara...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 167...

on him is derived from the Gaudavaho (Slaying of the king of Gauda), a Prakrit-language poem written by his court poet Vakpati. According to the Jain...

Prakrit Grantha inscription of Kadamba ruler Vishnuvarman (c. 5th-6th century CE) from Edakkal (northern Kerala)...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

the medieval phase of Sanskrit commentarial production that shaped how Prakrit/Ardhamāgadhī Āgamas were taught and interpreted in Śvetāmbara monastic...

Historian R. Champakalakshmi theorizes that the Sanskrit word "Tamraparni" and Prakrit word "Tambapanni" are renderings of the Tamil language words "Tan porunai"...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Sadri Nicobarese Pali Rajasthani Rajbanshi Sambalpuri Saraiki Shauraseni Prakrit Sikkimese Tulu Cultural preservation: Many communities argue that inclusion...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

the Ramayana and the oldest work of literature written in Maharashtri Prakrit. Jain versions of the Ramayana can also be found in the various Jain agamas...

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belongs to the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages that evolved from Magadhi Prakrit. The lowlands around Sylhet were originally inhabited by ancient Khasi...

a princess's full, red lips, highlighting her beauty. An excerpt from Prakrit text Gāhāraṇaṇakoso(Treasury of Gahas) compiled in 1000CE: The vermillion...

Mithila मिथिला (Sanskrit) मिहिला (Prakrit languages) Janaka welcoming Rama and his father Dasharatha to Mithila Type Ancient city Location In areas of...

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Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali Varendrī Bengali Early forms Gaudi Prakrit Old Bengali Middle Bengali Writing system Bengali alphabet Language codes...

from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford and New York: Oxford University...

written by Acharya Kundakunda in Prakrit. The original Samayasara of Kundakunda consists of 415 verses and was written in Prakrit. The first verse (aphorism)...

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Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

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567,028 Karnataka 440,280 Uttar Pradesh 213,267 Delhi 166,231 Religions Jainism Languages Prakrit (sacred) Indian languages (according to the region)...

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unknown which languages were spoken in Sri Lanka before it was settled by Prakrit-speaking immigrants in the 5th century BCE. The term Vedda is a Dravidian...

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Krishna. Radha Krishna's first literary mention was found in King Hala's Prakrit text Gatha Saptasati which is composed of 700 verses and was written in...

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has performed more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit. He is known for extempore composition of poetry (āśukavita) during these...

Gandharan Buddhism and are written in the Gandhārī language, Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit. The texts constitute the largest collection of Gandhārī manuscripts known...

 15–16. ISBN 9788192510750. Ollet, Andrew, (2017). Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India, University of California...

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Sahaja (Prakrit languages: সহজ Sanskrit: सहज sahaja) is spontaneous liberating knowledge in Indian Tantric and Tibetan Buddhist religions. Sahaja practices...

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Hermann (1884). Müller, F. Max (ed.). The Kalpa Sūtra (Translated from Prakrit). Sacred Books of the East vol.22, Part 1. Oxford, England: The Clarendon...

cāṭnā चाटना (to lick, as in licking one's fingers while eating), from Prakrit caṭṭei चट्टेइ (to devour with relish, eat noisily). All chaat variants...

Vashishtiputra Satakarni. Coinage of Vashishthiputra Sri Pulumavi, with Prakrit legend in the Brahmi script (starting at 12 o'clock): 𑀭𑀜𑁄 𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀺𑀣𑀺𑀧𑀼𑀢𑀲...

accepted. A prodigious writer, Hemacandra wrote grammars of Sanskrit and Prakrit, poetry, prosody, lexicons, texts on science and logic and many branches...

December 2020. Burrow, T. (1936). "The Dialectical Position of the Niya Prakrit". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 8 (2/3):...

examples. A smaller list of eighteen ancient Indian lipi is found in the Prakrit texts of Jainism (spelled as lipi sometimes), such as the Pannavana Sutra...

दुक्कडम्), also written as michchha mi dukkadam, is an ancient Indian Prakrit language phrase, found in historic Jain texts. Its Sanskrit equivalent...

Vindhyatabi c. 261–c. 340 CE Capital Vindhyatavi Common languages Sanskrit Prakrit Religion Shaivism (Hinduism) Government Monarchy Maharaja, Ranaslaghin...

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have been forged by Führer who was "extremely clumsy", "ill-educated in Prakrit phonology and morphology", and "ignorant to the same degree of Brāhmī palaeography...

have been forged by Führer who was "extremely clumsy", "ill-educated in Prakrit phonology and morphology", and "ignorant to the same degree of Brāhmī palaeography...

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Ashokan Prakrit (extinct) Late Old Indo-Aryan – Sanskrit Middle Indo-Aryan (extinct) Dardic Gandhari Prakrit (extinct) Niya Prakrit / Kroraina Prakrit / Niya...

lands inhabited by mlecchas) and that he was "the lotus of his family in Prakrit poetry". He began his poem with a Quranic invocation (hamd) and his work...

version of the Jaina philosophy. There are total 180 verses written in Prakrit language. The text is about five (panch) āstikāya, substances that have...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

secondary script are Marathi, Pāḷi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Boro, Nepali, Sherpa, Prakrit, Apabhramsha, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha, Chhattisgarhi, Haryanvi, Magahi...

much later than Prakrit inscriptions, although Prakrit is considered a descendant of the Sanskrit language. This is because Prakrit, in its multiple...

along with its cognate Marathi terms pāṭel and pāṭīl, are derived from the Prakrit word paṭṭaïl(l)a- "village headman", itself derived from the Sanskrit word...

1883 – 11 September 1922) was a writer and scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali from Jaipur, India. He was born in Jaipur and his father belongs...

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Charitr — Acharya Shubhachandra Adhyatmatarangini — Acharya Shubhachandra Prakrit Lakshan — Acharya Shubhachandra Ganitasar Sangrah — Acharya Sridhar Trilokasaratika...

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scriptures. This old literature is in Prakrit language and its commentaries are either available in Prakrit or Prakrit mixed with Sanskrit. The original text...

or Ashokan Chakra, a symbol on the Indian flag Ashokan Prakrit, Indic language of the Prakrit class during the period of emperor Ashoka Pillars of Ashoka...

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Cambodian inscription (c. 875) expressly mentions Guṇāḍhya and his aversion to Prakrit. The earliest extant Kannada work on grammar and poetics, Kavirajamarga...

Vidyasundar (विद्यासुन्दर) from Bengali Karpuramanjari (कर्पूरमञ्जरी) from Prakrit Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice as Durlabh Bandhu (दुर्लभ बन्धु) Invaluable...

poems. The work names and cites poets in 35 languages, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Persian, Kannada, Hindi, and Urdu. Jayarama compares Shahaji to Partha...

(1998) Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford University Press, page 160...

peninsular India excluding the coastal areas, is an anglicised form of the Prakrit word dakkhiṇa derived from the Sanskrit word dakshiṇa meaning south. Carnatic...

chaitya, with its Prakrit form being cheia, which can also denote a religious idol. Another term is the Sanskrit balanaka (Prakrit balanaya), which seems...

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beauty ' R̥gveda, ' welfare, riches ' Avestan (Iranian) Pali Prakrit sirī – feminine, Prakrit sī – feminine ' prosperity '; Marāṭhī – s honorific affix to...

Empire rule of Gandhara that the Kharosthi script, the script of Gandhari prakrit, was born through the Aramaic alphabet. During the reign of Xerxes I, Gandharan...

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Look up sa:आदिनाथ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adinatha (Prakrit/Sanskrit): Ādinātha, meaning "First Lord") is another name for Rishabhanatha (also...

many Indian languages, such as Marathi, Hindustani, Persian, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil. He also made Hindustani as the dominant language in the empire's...

covers words that have come to the languages from Old Indo-Aryan through Prakrit and Apabhraṃśa; they are the inherited tadbhava words and show an unbroken...

Mahajanapadas in the Post Vedic period. Capital Potali Podana Common languages Prakrit Sanskrit Religion Jainism Buddhism Government Monarchy Historical era Iron...

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Tiloya Panatti or Trilokaprajnapati is one of the earlier Prakrit texts on Jain cosmology composed by Acharya Yativrshabha. Jain cosmology has a unique...

Mallinatha (Prakrit: Mallinātha, Devanagari: मल्लिनाथ, Sanskrit: मल्लिनाथः, 'Lord of jasmine or seat') was the 19th ford-maker (tirthankara) of the present...

The primary meaning of the word salaka (Sanskrit: Śalākā, Pali: salākā, Prakrit: salāgā, salāyā) is "stick". In the Buddhist context it meant a ticket...

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in the Bhagawatīsūtra. Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India: Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology & Ahimsa. pp. 388–464. Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1953). Political...

Pachpadra, Rajasthan, India, Acharya Lokesh Muni studied Jain philosophy, Prakrit, Sanskrit, and comparative religion. During his chaturmas in Delhi, he...

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from the 2nd century CE as the city "Indabara", possibly derived from the Prakrit form "Indabatta", and which was probably in the vicinity of Delhi. Upinder...

close to the north of Magadha. Capital Veṭhadīpa-Doṇagāma Common languages Prakrit Sanskrit Religion Buddhism Historical Vedic religion Jainism Historical...

and Kaitheli used by the Kayasthas and called Lakhri in Kamrup. Kamarupi Prakrit Māmaṇi Raẏachama Goswāmī (1996), Rāmāyaṇa from Gangā to Brahmaputra, p...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

in Hemja, Near Pokhara on April 17, 1940. He is best known for his book Prakrit Pokhara (प्राकृत पोखरा) which won Madan Puraskar on 1964 (2021 BS). He...

Kingdom, an ancient kingdom in western Nepal and northern India Khasa Prakrit, a Prakrit (Middle Indo-Aryan) language of medieval South Asia, ancestor of modern...

Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology & (2005). Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin (in Hindi). Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa...

India, these Prakrits gave rise to their own Apabhraṃśa, a descendant of Prakrit. Punjabi emerged as an Apabhraṃśa, a degenerated form of Prakrit, in the 7th...

Another edition by Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit (2008): ISBN 8177021052. The Prakrit language poems Kodanda-Kavya and Kurma-Sataka are also attributed to Bhoja...

Swayamprabhasuri or Svayamprabhasuri was a Śvetāmbara Jain ascetic and the 5th successor in the lineage of the monastic heads of the Chaturvidha Sangha's...

(1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 90...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

were greatly influenced by Sanskrit (or its descendant languages, the Prakrits and modern-day Indo-Aryan languages) historically. Sanskritisation often...

Sanskrit and Prakrit though, for example, Bhāsa's Dūtavākya contains no Prakrit, and Rajashekhara's Karpuramanjari is written entirely in Prakrit. Published...

and mastering multiple languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Prakrit, English, Marathi, and Rajasthani. At the age of 16, Vimalsagarsuri was...

states that "Mukhalingam" is a corruption of "Mohalingam", which is the Prakrit form of "Madhu[ka]linga". Another view states that the linga at the Madhukeshwara...

parable of tree in miniature from 17th c., Saṁgrahaṇīratna by Śrīcandra, in Prakrit with a Gujarati commentary. Jain Śvetāmbara cosmological text with commentary...

Sanskrit and the dialects associated with Sanskrit—the Prakrits—and was appointed to teach the Prakrits, or Middle Indo-Aryan, as they are sometimes called...

as Ila (Eela), the Prakrit form of the Eelam. He derived Eelam from Sinhala as follows; Sinhaḷa>Sîhaḷa (in Pali) / Sihiḷa (in Prakrit)>Sîḷa>Iḷa>Iḻam (Eelam)...

Late Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Greek zingiberis, from Prakrit (Middle Indic) singabera, from Sanskrit श्रङ्गवेर śrngavera, from śrnga...

lord of", later modified to mean "hailing from" or "belonging to" in Prakrit-based languages. Such surnames are commonly used by communities of Konkani...

patronised the Prakrit language. The Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela was an earliest known example of a prashasti was inscribed in prakrit language and...

buffalo or cow butter or ghee. The word saag is derived from the Apabhraṃśa, Prakrit word 'sāgun' and Sanskrit word shaak (śāka) meaning leafy green vegetables...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and in Sanskrit and Prakrit as the Sveta-huna), were a people who lived in Central Asia during the...

etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. The remaining 25% of Urdu's vocabulary...

a 1959 Venezuelan documentary film Arya metre, a poetic meter used in Prakrit and Sanskrit poetry Araya, Venezuela, a town in Venezuela Araya Fortress...

capitals[citation needed]. His earliest rock edicts in Brahmi script and Prakrit language (3rd century BC) containing Kannada words were discovered.[citation...

several works written after his death, including those written in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi and Rajasthani languages. The Hammira Mahakavya, his biography by...

of the pillar of dimension 13x10 inches. The inscription is written in Prakrit language. The writing was done by engraving, sewing, engraving, weaving...

(1998), Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3...

features that have been referred to as Māgadhisms. Magadhi Prakrit was one of the three dramatic prakrits to emerge following the decline of Sanskrit. It was...

Indian subcontinent and became more of one as the spoken languages, or prakrits, began to diverge from it in different regions. With the rise of the bhakti...

Bactrian Byzantine Greek Coptic Gandhari Prakrit Geʽez Georgian Irish Japanese Kannada Korean Maharashtri Prakrit Pre-Proto-Mongolic Old Church Slavonic...

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superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

in archaeology: "The names Tambapanni and Tamra- parni are in fact the Prakrit and Sanskrit rendering of Tamil Tan porunai" Leelananda Prematilleka, Sudharshan...

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Kayotsarga (Sanskrit: कायोत्सर्ग Kāyotsarga, Jain Prakrit: काउस्सग्ग Kāussagga) is a yogic posture which is an important part of the Jain meditation....

Tripurasura leave worship of Vedas and Shiva. Sugata ("pleasing gait") is a Prakrit name based on the beauty of the human body, mentioned as an example in...

characters, especially suitable for Indic, Indian and Nepali (Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi) and Middle Eastern languages and Urdu in transliteration. It also...

earliest attestations of Old Telugu can be found as the loan words in Prakrit inscriptions and literature dating to the early CE, including in Gaha Sattasai...

belongs to a poetic type known as Nakhaśikha, well known from Sanskrit, Prakrit and the later literary tradition. The aim of these works was to present...

The Niśītha Sūtra (Prakrit:Nisīha Sutta) is a Jaina Śvetāmbara canonical text in Prakrit. This text is one of the six Chedasūtras. The text consists of...

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museology, and art history. Writing career Language Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit, English. Years active 1933–1966 Notable works The Heritage of Indian Art...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

Chankravartin. Miniature from the 17th century, Saṁgrahaṇīratna by Śrīcandra, in Prakrit with a Gujarati commentary. Jain Śvetāmbara cosmological text with commentary...

Interpretation and the National Institute/ Institutes for Pali, Persian and Prakrit. Other bodies proposed include the National Mission for Mentoring, National...

Dravidian clans such as the Velir, prior to the migration of Prakrit speakers. Once Prakrit speakers had attained dominance on the island, the Mahavamsa...

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Saptarishi mound of Mathura by Bhagwan Lal Indraji in 1869. It is covered with Prakrit inscriptions in the kharoshthi script of northwestern India. The capital...

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may refer to: Maharashtrian Brahmin Maharashtrian cuisine Maharashtri Prakrit, a medieval language Marathi people, people native to Maharashtra All pages...

superstrate Middle Early Ashokan Prakrit Pāli Early Ardhamagadhi Middle (Prakrit) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dramatic Prakrits Ardhamagadhi Magadhi Maharashtri...

However, it has cognates in Middle Indo-Aryan languages: Pali milakkha, and Prakrit mliccha, from the latter of which originate Sindhi milis, Punjabi milēch...

inscription on the obelisk is primarily in Brahmi script but language was Prakrit, with some Pali and Sanskrit added later. The inscription was successfully...

and had good knowledge of Urdu, Persian and Arabic, English, Pali and Prakrit. He liked the classical music and various great classical musicians used...

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Dhank, Chhaya, Ghumli, Ranapur, Porbandar Common languages Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Gujarati, Religion Hinduism Government Monarchy History   • Established...

(with about 16% tadbhava vocabulary inherited from Old Indo-Aryan via the Prakrit languages such as Apabhraṃśa and Abahaṭṭha). The form of Bengali with the...

English translations are: Illustrated SRI ANUTTARAUPAPATIKADASA SUTRA Prakrit Gatha - Hindi exposition - English exposition and Appendices Ed. by Pravartaka...

Indian Library Association - ILA ( established in 1933). Introduction to Prakrit Shafi, Mohammad, ed. (1940). Woolner Commemoration Volume: In Memory of...

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