prakrit
प्राकृत PrākṛtThe vernacular literary register beneath Sanskrit, which the Nāṭyaśāstra assigns on stage to characters other than kings. The Sanskrit lexicons define śābara separately as a low form of it, the sort spoken by mountaineers.
Where this term appears
- Who was allowed to learn Sanskrit? Journal
The Jain canon is in Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, and the Samavayanga Sutra explains why with a miracle rather than a rule.
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
… the figure of Garuda, the eagle, and had cut into its base a line in Prakrit that names himself a Bhagavata , a devotee, and dedicates the column to Vasudeva , "the god of gods." The pillar still stands.
- Who is Krishna? Deities
Its Brahmi inscription, in Prakrit, records that the column is a Garuda-dhvaja , a standard topped with Garuda, the eagle mount associated with Vishnu and Vasudeva, and that it was set up by Heliodorus , son of…
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
It is the full visual signature of the Śabara as Sanskrit and Prakrit literature had been drawing him for centuries: forest-dweller, hunter, outside the settled order, outside the language.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
Śābara is a lexical item meaning a low form of Prākṛt, spoken by mountaineers; it stands in the Nāṭyaśāstra 's list of stage vibhāṣās ; and on Thapar's account the classical outsider-vocabulary is first of all …
- Against the Page Treatise
They are written in Prakrit, the spoken-derived language of administration, and in two main scripts: Brahmi across most of the empire, the ancestor of nearly all later Indian scripts, and Kharosthi in the north…
- Jagannātha and Viśvāvasu Treatise
Chapter 4 went to the year 779, to a Jain Prakrit romance in which the practitioners of the Mahāsābarī vidyā , the great Śābara knowledge, turn out to be Vidyādharas in Śabara costume.
- Śabda eternal Treatise
…" Chapters two and four traced that usage from the lexicons back to a Prakrit narrative whose closing verses count out the Śaka year seven hundred less a day, which is 779 of the Common Era.