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oapen-20.500.12657-310942021-11-04T14:10:12Z Language of the Snakes Ollett, Andrew prakrit sanskrit literary history indian languages indian literature Jainism Satavahana dynasty bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history 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 the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition 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. 2017-11-02 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:23:42Z 2020-04-01T13:23:42Z 2017 book 638970 OCN: 984512218 9780520968813 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31094 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 638970.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.37 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.37 10.1525/luminos.37 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520968813 324 Oakland, California open access
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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 the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition 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.
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