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Milestones in Gujarati Literature

1914

The present work is incomplete but it is to be hoped that the reception accorded to the story of Gujarati liteature down to the beginning of the nineteenth century will encourage the author to continue the work down to the present time. [...] I Kathiawad the home of the Scythians or Kathis was originally known as Saurashtra§ or fris narta The earliest European record is that.of the conquest of this province by Menander about 155-3 B c. The Edicts of Asoka (240 B. c.) and of the aka Satrap Audra Daman (150 A. D.) cut on the rock at Girnar and the costruction of the Sudargana Lake by Tushaspha the Persian Viceroy of Asoka's [...] The Sakas a nomadic Central Asian tribe living somewhere north of the Upper Jaxartes migrated to India about the middle of the second century B. c. and traversing via Taxila and Mathura the province of Sind "carved out for themselves a dominion in the Peninsula of Saurashtra or Kathiawad and some of the neighbouring districts on the mainland." The practices of these foreigners were distast [...] be taken as follows:— It is bounded on the north by the river Banas which rises-near Udaipur and is lost in the Ran (desert) of Cutch; on the south by the Daman or Damanganga river which flows into the sea near Daman; on the east by the prvince of Malwa and the Western Ghats or Sahyadri range; and on the west by the Gulf of Cutch and the Arabian Sea or Indian Ocean.* Ravi Narmadilgankar has [...] With the rise of Magadha and the advent of Gautama Buddha who preferred to preach to nations in the spoken tongue the Pali language was recognied as the spoken"10 11.11LES70NEg IN tongue of Northern India (circa 500 B. c.) "In the centuries following the Christian Era the Pali became gradually replaced by the Prakrits the' spoken dialects of the people.
language linguistics
Pages
307
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143751
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Preface
i-ix Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter I. Introduction
1-17 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter II. Early Jain Literature and Form of Language
18-24 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter III. Bhakti Marga and Ports of the Fifteenth Century
25-51 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter IV. Poets of the Sixteenth Century
52-53 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter V. Ports of the Seventeenth Century
54-147 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter VI. Poets of the Eighteenth Century
148-170 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter VII. Poets of the (First Half of the)Nineteenth Century
171-252 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Chapter VIII The Indigenous Literature of Kathiawad
253-270 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Bibliography
271-272 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Note
273-273 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Erratum
274-274 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Index
275-295 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Backmatter
i-i Krishnalal Jhaveri view

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