Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.26

c8.26

Let us now examine cursorily the principal Prâkṛit and the Śaurasenî which ranks next to it in literary importance, but as the model of the inferior dialects and as the language used by the higher class of Prâkṛit-speaking dramatic persons in their prose speeches is more important than the other. Here, as before, I will place a specimen of each before you:—