NIA languages

[Madhav Deshpande]

	The 13th century Marathi work called Jnaaneshvarii by 
Jnaaneshvara uses the words "marhaaTaa bola" and "deshii" to refer to 
Marathi.  So does the Marathi work titled Vivekasindhu by Mukundaraaja 
dated 1188 A.D.  For further info, see my book: Sociolinguistic Attitudes 
in India, An Historical Reconstruction, Karoma Publishers, Ann Arbor, 
1979, pp. 69ff.
		Madhav Deshpande

On Thu, 1 Feb 1996 P.Friedlander at wellcome.ac.uk wrote:

> In Anantadasa's Bhaktiratnavali of c. AD 1600 the author uses the term 
> Prakrit to refer to the language he uses. Yet this work is now referred to 
> as a Hindi work.  
> There is also a manuscript in this library that refers in its text to its 
> language as Sauraseni bhasa, a term I take as referring to a kind of 
> Prakrit. But this work is in a sort of Marathi.
> There are also countless instances of 'Hindi' works referring to their 
> language as simply bhasa.
> My question is: do list members know of interesting instances of NIA 
> language works referring to the language they are composed/spoken in . 
> For instance, does anyone know what is the earliest text that refers to 
> itself as being in Brajabhasa?
> Dr Peter G. Friedlander
> Cataloguer of Hindi and Panjabi Manuscripts
> Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
> 183 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BN
> England
> e-mail: P.Friedlander at wellcome.ac.uk
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