Sanskrit and Prakrit pāmara

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In the middle of the third century BCE – some 2250 years ago – the Mauryan emperor Aśoka is thought to have directed the creation of the Brahmi script. Brahmi was used in all parts of India to write Prakrit and Sanskrit (except for the north-western regions where Kharoshthi was used to write Prakrit and Gandhari, and occasionally Sanskrit). Brahmi shows all the features found in the scripts des...

A handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, vol. 2

painted Burmese manuscript of the 'Life of the Buddha' (no. 22), perhaps the most valuable item in the collection. Six scenes from this are reproduced in colour at the end of the work. Manuscript no. 117 was actually purchased for the Wellcome collection at Stevens' auction house on 29 October 1920. Long before that, in 1833, it had belonged to a Mr Bennet. Its forty or so inscribed palm leaves...

Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics

The importance of ashtādhyaȳı is three fold. The first one, as is well known, as an almost exhaustive grammar for any natural language with meticulous details yet small enough to memorize. Though ashtādhyāȳı is written to describe the then prevalent Sanskrit language, it provides a grammatical framework which is general enough to analyse other languages as well. This makes the study of ashtādhy...

Sanskrit Segmentation

Plant Names – Sanskrit and Latin

Ascertaining the botanical identities of many of the plants described in Sanskrit literature is a difficult task. However, the problem can be solved by basing the studies on an authentic and ancient Sanskrit work. Thus the Garuda Purana was studied and the botanical identities of the numerous plants listed in chapter 202 of the Purvabhaga were ascertained.