03895oam 22008654a 450 991022735420332120230621135654.00-520-96881-610.1525/luminos.37(CKB)4100000000883798(OAPEN)638970(DE-B1597)539722(DE-B1597)9780520968813(OCoLC)1085392899(MdBmJHUP)muse73005(ScCtBLL)ee800b10-46b2-45d0-90d4-200709c61d18(EXLCZ)99410000000088379820170417h20172017 uy 0engurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage of the SnakesPrakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India /Andrew OllettOakland, California :University of California Press,[2017].©20171 online resource (xi, 308 pages) illustrations, charts, map; PDF, digital file(s)South Asia across the disciplinesPrint version: 9780520296220 Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-295) and index.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.South Asia across the disciplines.Language and cultureIndiaSanskrit literatureHistory and criticismPrakrit languagesPrakrit literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books. asian history.asian literature.classical indian literary culture.classical literature.common era.cosmopolitan.creating a new language.cultural tensions.deccan.demotic language practices.first centuries.india.indian literary criticism.kava movement.language history.language order.language.literary phenomenon.old languages.prakrit.regional.sanskrit.south asia.transregional.vernacular.Language and cultureSanskrit literatureHistory and criticism.Prakrit languages.Prakrit literatureHistory and criticism.891/.3Ollett Andrew1986-967677MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910227354203321Language of the snakes2197266UNINA