Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

by Andrew Ollett

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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 the kavya...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520296222
• ISBN13: 9780520296220
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"