avadhi
अवधी AvadhiThe spoken tongue of the eastern Gangetic plain and the language of Tulsīdās's Rāmcaritmānas; the poem's opening invocation defends composing the life of Rāma in it, in a literary culture that reserved authority for Sanskrit.
Where this term appears
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
Prakrit intervocalic b to v , and Avadhi palatal ś to dental s , are not instability either.
- Duhāī: eight books, counted Treatise
The ordinary Hindī and Avadhi spelling is आन, with the dental n , and it is the spelling a reader of Tulsīdās or of Sūr would expect to meet.
- The bazaar press Treatise
…lkāṇḍ , cited the Śābara mantras as precedent for writing his epic in Avadhi and sealed the passage with bhāṣā bhaniti prabhāu , the power of a vernacular composition.
- The philology of unintelligibility Treatise
It is in the maṅgalācaraṇ , the opening invocation, in the poet's own voice, in the passage where he is arguing for his right to write the life of Rāma in Avadhi.
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
Some time in the 1570s, in Vārāṇasī, a poet writing in Avadhi set down four lines about the age he believed he was living in.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
…īdās reaches for these mantras to justify writing the life of Rāma in Avadhi and seals the passage with bhāṣā bhaniti prabhāu , the power of a vernacular composition, which is a reader inside the tradition trea…
- Two Śābaratantras Treatise
Prakrit turns intervocalic b into v ; Avadhi turns palatal ś into dental s .
- Vācā, phuro, ājñā Treatise
The gods made potent speech out of ill-matched vernacular syllables. Therefore a poem in Avadhi can be potent too.