Tamil Heritage Trust
Talk on "The Importance of Prakrit in Literature and Religion" by Dr
Abhijeet Alagoudar - the concept of Prakrits, some
of the variants and dialects, the use of Prakrit in drama and
poetry as well as religious texts, and the evolution of some
of today's languages from the Prakrit source.
at 5.30 pm IST on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Talk in English.
Prakrits were a group of Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the
Indian sub continent from the middle of the first millennium CE and
continued to flourish well into the first millenium CE. Knowledge
of Prakrit is important to understand the history of Indian languages as
well as to learn Indian philosophies. Much of Buddhist and Jaina
literature was written in Prakrit. Scholars opine that understanding of
Sanskrit language is not complete unless one learns the Prakrits.
Dr Abhijeet Alagoudar is a member of the faculty in the Department
of Studies in Jainology and Prakrits, University of Mysore. He has a BA
in Sanskrit, MA in Prakrit and was awarded his PhD by the University of
Mysore. He has authored four books on various features of Jainism and
has edited and translated two more including a Dictionary for Jaina
Technical Terms. He is also manuscript reader for the Indira Gandhi
National Centre for Arts, New Delhi. He has been invited to teach Jaina
Philosophy by various institutions and has participated and presented
papers in several international seminars.
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