Bhatt/Info on Hemachandra/Tamil-Prakrit

[Raveen Satkurunathan]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:12:50 -0600, Yashwant Malaiya <malaiya at CS.COLOSTATE.EDU>
wrote:

>Bhatta:

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>Tamil/prakrit:
>
>Regarding  the campantar's comment, it should be mentioned that
>Sanskrit too was a Prakrit, specifically the language of NW
>India. That is why the Buddhists in Gandhar used sanskrit (or
>a sanskrit-like) language instead of Pali. This is just like
>khari boli being the standard dialect of Hindi today.
>
>Use of Sanskrit lingered on in NW India for quite some time, and
>was even used during the rule of some Muslim rulers as an
>official language.
>
>The kafirs (culturally extinct now), specially the Kalash, who
>were isolated in valleys, even now use words that are remarkably
>close to pure Sanskrit. They have only recently given up their
>original faith for Islam (or Christianity in a few cases). Their
>valleys are not too far away from Shalatur, where Panini lived.

Comprehensive information about Nuristanis (PC word for Kafirs) is found in

http://users.sedona.net/~strand/
http://users.sedona.net/~strand/Nuristani/

It is an evolving site. Nuristanis were driven to where there are living today by
the Iranic speaking people and are not linguistically IA but a pre IA, IE
people.

more related links

http://www.ishipress.com/kalasha.htm
http://babaev.newmail.ru/tree2/dardic.html