A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s1: Language

v3.c42.s1.1

The language in which the treatises of the Bower MS are written is a kind of mixed Sanskrit, i.e., a mixture of current literary Sanskrit and a Sanskrit with a varying proportion of prakritisms. The influence of Prakrit is far more pronounced in the more popular treatises on divination and incantation in parts IV–VII than in the more scientific medical treatises of parts I–III.¹⁵