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Sanskrit literature --- Pali literature --- Prakrit literature --- History and criticism.

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"The Gandharan birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of nineteen scrolls discovered at the end of the twentieth century and named after their findspot in northwestern Pakistan. The manuscripts, written in the Gandhari language and Kharosthi script, date to the second century CE. The three scrolls-BC 4, BC 6, and BC 11- contain treatises that focus on the Buddhist concept of non-attachment. This volume is the first in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series that is devoted to texts belonging to the Mahayana tradition. There are no known versions of these texts in other Buddhist traditions, and it is assumed that they are autographs. Andrea Schlosser provides an overview of the contents of the manuscripts and discusses their context, genre, possible authorship, physical layout, paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology. Transliteration and translation of the texts are accompanied by notes on difficult terminology, photographs of the reconstructed scrolls, an index of Gandhari words with Sanskrit and Pali equivalents, and a preliminary transliteration of the scroll BC 19"--

Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit --- Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi --- Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit. --- Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi. --- Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan) --- Kharoṣṭhi manuscripts --- Gandhari Prakrit Buddhist literature --- Gandhari Prakrit literature --- Gandhara (Pakistan) --- Buddhism

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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 few centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the "kavya movement," and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher.

History --- Asian history --- Prakrit literature --- Prakrit languages. --- Sanskrit literature --- Language and culture --- History and criticism. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Extinct languages --- Indo-Aryan languages, Middle --- asian history. --- asian literature. --- classical indian literary culture. --- classical literature. --- common era. --- cosmopolitan. --- creating a new language. --- cultural tensions. --- deccan. --- demotic language practices. --- first centuries. --- india. --- indian literary criticism. --- kava movement. --- language history. --- language order. --- language. --- literary phenomenon. --- old languages. --- prakrit. --- regional. --- sanskrit. --- south asia. --- transregional. --- vernacular.