Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (2 Vols.)
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (2 Vols.)

Author: Franklin Edgerton

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

Published:

Total Pages: 905

ISBN-13: 8120809971

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This is the first attempt at a description of the grammar and lexicon of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Most North Indian Buddhist texts are composed in it. It is based primarily on an old Middle Indic vernacular not otherwise identifiable. But there seems reason to believe that it contains features that were borrowed from other Middle Indic dialects. In other words, even its Middle Indic aspects are dialectically somewhat mixed. Most strikingly, however, BHS was also extensively influenced by Sanskrit from the very beginning of the tradition as it has been transmitted to us, and increasingly as time went on. Many (especially later) products of this tradition have often, though misleadingly, been called simply 'Sanskrit', without qualification. In principle, the author has excluded from the grammar and dictionary all forms which are standard Sanskrit, and all words which are used in standard Sanskrit with the same meanings.

The Art of Sanskrit Poetry
The Art of Sanskrit Poetry

Author: Niels Hammer

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13:

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This book is both an introduction to Sanskrit and an investigation into the relationship between the nine basic affective states and the form they take in the absence of self-interest according to the theory of Indian aesthetics as developed in the Dhvanyaloka and the Abhinavabharati.

The Sanskrit Language
The Sanskrit Language

Author: Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 154

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This book has the rare distinction of being both an introductorybook and a new ground-breaking study. It is an introductorybook because the reader gets an accurate overview ofthe language, and it is also a ground-breaking study becauseFilliozat s approach harmonizes two different and complementarystands that often have been at war: the Western historicaland comparative approach and the indigenous pa!Çitatradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two points ofview: what the native speakers knew and felt about theirlanguage, and what the foreign scholars discovered in theirhistorical and comparative quest.