Language of the Snakes

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit  www.luminosoa.org  to learn more. 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 movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of c