London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962. — xxv, 319 p. — (London Oriental Series. 7). Bibliography and Abbreviations. Preface. Introduction. The manuscript and the text . Discovery of the manuscript and publication. Extant parts and their arrangement. Division, and missing parts. Estimated length of the complete text . General relationships with Pali Dhammapada...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. — xx, 273 p. — ISBN 0-295-97768-X . — ISBN 0-295-97769-8. List of Illustrations Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Preface Note on the System of Transcription and Citation Abbreviations The Background: Gandhāra and Gandhāran Buddhism Gandhara: Geographic Setting and Early History Buddhism in Gandhāra Textual Sources and the...
Translated from the German by Subhadra Jhā. — Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1957. — 446 p. Richard Pischel’s Grammar of the Prakrit Languages was first published in the year 1900 in German. Prakrit has a vast literature but it had no systematic comprehensive grammar. Scholars like Vararuci, Hemacandra, Trivikrama, Markandeya, Laksmidhra, Krsna Pandit, Ramasarana Tarkavagisa had...
University of Sydney, 2024. — 385 p. The consonant phonology of the Gāndhārī language is described in detail. Gāndhārī is a MIA language which was spoken in ancient Gandhāra, covering areas of modern-day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It is attested from the third century BCE to the fourth century CE, in sources including rock inscriptions and Buddhist manuscripts....
New Delhi, 1984 (reprint; 1st ed.: London 1883). — 219 p. The object of the present work is to give a collection of the inscriptions in Ceylon very much in the same way as the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum by General Cunningham, of which the first volume has appeared three years ago. Unfortunately the man to whom the work was entrusted from the beginning and who was...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. — 293 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 165). This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the...
Atti del secondo convegno nazionale di studi sanscriti. — Editi da Oscar Botto. — A cura di Stefano Piano e Antonella Comba. — Torino: Jollygrafica, 1984. — p. 71-77. With reference to different types of errors present in the Aśoka inscriptions, the Author shows how the difficulties must be faced by simultaneously resorting to different methods of investigation.
Atti del primo convegno nazionale di studi sanscriti. — Editi da Oscar Botto. — A cura di Stefano Piano e Antonella Comba. — Torino: Associazione italiana di studi sanscriti (AISS), 1982. — p. 131-139. The author takes into consideration two terms: amta and kaṭabhīkāle .
Studi e saggi linguistici (Supplemento alla rivista «L’Italia dialettale», Vol. XLV (N. S. XXII), 1982). — Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori, 1982. — n. 22. — p. 151-162. Topics covered: The numeral «twelve» in Shāhbāzgaṛhī. The future kachati . Phono-syntactic reinforcement.
AION: Annali del Seminario di studi del mondo classico. Sezione linguistica. — Pisa: Giardini – 3, 1981. — p. 215-226. The author studies the compound bhaṭamayesu and dwells, in particular, also from an etymological point of view, on maya .
Rita Caprini (a cura di). L’intrico dei pensieri di chi resta. Scritti in memoria di Giulia Petracco Sicardi. Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2016, pp. 293-297. The author studies how some important phonetic phenomena of the Middle Indian manifest themselves in the Aśoka inscriptions.
Enrico Campanile (a cura di). Studi indoeuropei (Testi linguistici, 8); Pisa: Giardini, 1985, pp.137-141. The Author believes that it would be possible to see, in the inscriptions of Shāhbāzgaṛhī, alongside a "cultured" language, typical of the local chancellery, and characterized overall by a strict adherence to the model provided by Sanskrit, also phenomena originating from...
Annali del Seminario di studi del mondo classico, Sezione linguistica, dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli «L'Orientale» (AION) 6, 1984, pp.163-173. The Author criticizes the interpretations given by other authors to the third edict on stone, in particular to the final sentence. Then he translates the text according to his own interpretation.
Poona, 1948. — xxxviii + 345 p. Abbreviations Chapters Comparative Study of Aśokan Inscriptions Historical Linguistics of the Western Group Historical Linguistics of the Southern Group Historical Linguistics of the Central Group Historical Linguistics of the Eastern Group Synoptic Tables Morphology Conclusions Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions Appendix Corrigenda Subject-Index
Straßburg: Trübner, 1916. — iv + 183 S. (Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde. I/7) Einleitung Abschnitt I. Literatur des Pāli Die kanonische Literatur Die nichtkanonische Literatur Abschnitt II. Grammatik des Pāli Lautlehre Wortbildungslehre Verzeichnis der ständigen Abkürzungen Register Nachträge und Verbesserungen
Agra: The Educational Press, 1938. — 1085 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words, collected from 49 texts consisting of...
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. — 900 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words,...
Limbdi: Resident G Secretaries, Jashwantsinh Printing Press, 1032. — 1058 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words,...
Krishnapura, Pirgalli, Indore: Sardarmal Bhandari, 1927. — 971 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words, collected from...
Kesarichand Bhandari, 1923. — 611 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words, collected from 49 texts consisting of nearly...
Limbdi: Resident G Secretaries, Jashwantsinh Printing Press, 1930. — 758 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words,...
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. — 988 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words,...
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. — 700 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Отсутствуют несколько страниц в начале книги. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume,...
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. — 950 p. Словарь пракрита ардха-магадхи с переводом на санскрит, гуджарати, хинди и английский. Ratnacandra's Ardhamagadhi dictionary was originally published in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1932 and 1938. As A. C. Woolner explained in his introduction to the first volume, the dictionary contains about 50.000 words,...
Studia Indologica: Festschrift für Willibald Kirfel zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres. — Ed. by Otto Spies. — (Bonner Orientalische Studien; Neue Serie; Bd. 3). — Bonn: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Bonn, 1955. — P. 219-241. On archaic linguistic features in Middle Indic languages.
University of California Press, 2017. — 326 p. — (South Asia Across the Disciplines). — ISBN10: 0520296222, 13 978-0520296220. 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...
University of California Press, 2017. — 293 p. — (South Asia Across the Disciplines). — ISBN10: 0520296222, 13 978-0520296220. 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...
University of California Press, 2017. — 320 p. — (South Asia Across the Disciplines). — ISBN10: 0520296222, 13 978-0520296220. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. ― 146 p. The documents discussed in this 1937 book were found by Sir Aurel Stein at the turn of the twentieth century. In this text, they were interpreted for the first time. Mr Burrow has identified the language in which they are written, and has succeeded in interpreting their meaning. He here presents a grammar of the language, with a full...