Prakrta-Prakasa or the Prakrta Grammer of Vararuchi
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Krishnadas Sanskrit Series
Book: 12Author
Edition
Reprint.
Publisher
Length
xxxii+235p.,Appendices; Index; 23cm.
Subjects
This monograph is the third edition of E. B. Cowell’s translation of a well-known work on Prakrt Grammer of Vararuchi, the oldest known grammarian of the Prakrt dialects, i.e. dialects that are considered inferior to Sanskrit. “In Sanskrit dramas, it is women, except female religious characters, and subordinate male personages, who are made to speak in Prakrt languages, the use of Sanskrt being reserved for the higher characters of the play, and ...