Middle Indic textbook?

[Peter Wyzlic]

Am 15.06.2009 um 21:14 schrieb Smith, Frederick M:

> What's the most authoritative account of the development of Middle  
> Indic? Is it Pischel's book of more than a century ago? Or is there  
> something more recent? Also, how has the work of S.K. Chatterji on  
> Middle Indic and Bengali held up?


Besides Oskar von Hinüber's book, one may refer to the works of Frank  
van den Bossche and Thomas Oberlies, too:

Frank van den Bossche: A reference manual of middle Prākrit grammar :  
the Prākrits of the dramas and the Jain texts. - Gent : Vakgroep Talen  
en Culturen van Zuid-en Oost-Azië, 1999. - 146 p. - (Bijdragen /  
Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Gent ; 3)

Thomas Oberlies: Pāli : a grammar of the language of the Theravāda  
Tipiṭaka; with a concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit- 
Sprachen. - Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter, 2001. - XVIII, 385 p. -  
(Indian philology and South Asian studies ; 3)
ISBN 3-11-016763-8

Hope it helps,
Peter Wyzlic

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