LEADER 03992oam 22009014a 450 001 9910227354203321 005 20230621135654.0 010 $a0-520-96881-6 024 7 $a10.1525/luminos.37 035 $a(CKB)4100000000883798 035 $a(OAPEN)638970 035 $a(DE-B1597)539722 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520968813 035 $a(OCoLC)1085392899 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73005 035 $a(ScCtBLL)ee800b10-46b2-45d0-90d4-200709c61d18 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31594260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31594260 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000883798 100 $a20170417h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage of the Snakes$ePrakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India /$fAndrew Ollett 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2017]. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) $cillustrations, charts, map; PDF, digital file(s) 225 1 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines 311 08$aPrint version: 9780520296220 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-295) and index. 327 $aPrakrit 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. 330 $a"Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first few centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the "kavya movement," and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aSouth Asia across the disciplines. 606 $aLanguage and culture$zIndia 606 $aSanskrit literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPrakrit languages 606 $aPrakrit literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aasian history. 610 $aasian literature. 610 $aclassical indian literary culture. 610 $aclassical literature. 610 $acommon era. 610 $acosmopolitan. 610 $acreating a new language. 610 $acultural tensions. 610 $adeccan. 610 $ademotic language practices. 610 $afirst centuries. 610 $aindia. 610 $aindian literary criticism. 610 $akava movement. 610 $alanguage history. 610 $alanguage order. 610 $alanguage. 610 $aliterary phenomenon. 610 $aold languages. 610 $aprakrit. 610 $aregional. 610 $asanskrit. 610 $asouth asia. 610 $atransregional. 610 $avernacular. 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aSanskrit literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPrakrit languages. 615 0$aPrakrit literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891/.3 700 $aOllett$b Andrew$f1986-$0967677 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910227354203321 996 $aLanguage of the snakes$92197266 997 $aUNINA