Maharashtri, is a language of ancient and medieval India, descended from Prakrit, and spoken in what is now Maharashtra and other parts of India. It is the ancestor of Marathi,Konkani,Divehi and Sinhalese as well. It is one of the many languages (often called dialects) of a complex called Prakrit, and the chief Dramatic Prakrit. Its literary use was made famous by the playwright Kalidasa. Maharashtri was the most popular amongst all Prakrit languages.

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  • Maharashtri, is a language of ancient and medieval India, descended from Prakrit, and spoken in what is now Maharashtra and other parts of India. It is the ancestor of Marathi,Konkani,Divehi and Sinhalese as well. It is one of the many languages (often called dialects) of a complex called Prakrit, and the chief Dramatic Prakrit. Its literary use was made famous by the playwright Kalidasa. Maharashtri was the most popular amongst all Prakrit languages. It was spoken from Malwa and Rajputana (north) to Krishna and the Tungabhadra river region (south). Sanskrit lost its status as a 'communication language' somewhere around 500 B.C. , when Prakrit came into use. The ruler Hāla (r. 20-24 CE) mentioned in the Puranas as a member of the Satavahana dynasty, used Maharashtri, then popular, to write Saptashati(सप्तशती) or Gāthā Saptashatī, Setubandh (सेतुबंध) and Karpurmanjari (कर्पुरमंजरी). Maharashtri was in use for 1000 years (500 BC to 500 AD). Historians agree that Maharashtri and other Prakrit languages prevailed in modern Maharashtra. Maharashtri was widely spoken in western India and even down south in the parts which speak Kannada. Marathi is descended from the Prakrit dialect Maharashtri (literally, the "Language of the Empire"), which was the official language of the Satavahana Empire in the early centuries of the Common Era. Under the patronage of the Satavahana Empire, Maharashtri became the most widespread Prakrit of its time, and also dominated the literary culture amongst the three "Dramatic" Prakrits of the time, Maharashtri, Sauraseni and Magadhi. A version of Maharashtri, called the Jaina Maharashtri, also was employed to write sections of Jain scripture. The Satavahana Emperor Hala's Sattasai, an anthology of over 700 love poems, has been established as the most famous work of literature in Maharashtri. Maharashtri evolved during the 15th and 16th centuries into Marathi.
  • Maharashtri var en dialekt av prakrit och officiellt språk i Satavahanariket, och motsvaras av det moderna marathispråket. Dialekten talades i västra Indien i trakten kring och söder om nuvarande Bombay, alltså språket i det gamla Maharashtra, marather. Maharashtri är den prakritdialekt som har producerat den rikaste litteraturen. I de gamla indiska dramerna talas sanskrit av de män som hör till de högre kasterna, medan prakrit talas av kvinnor och lägre kaster, så att chauraseni används i prosa och maharastri i vers. De viktigaste verken på maharastri är Halas Saptachataka, en berömd samling av korta (enstrofiga) dikter från 300- eller 400-talet (i alla fall före 600-talet), som först utgavs och delvis översattes av Weber ("Das Saptacatakam des Hala", i "Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen gesellschaft", band 27, samt "Abhandlungen für die kunde des Morgenlandes", band 7); Ravanavaha eller Setubandha, från något senare tid, behandlande samma ämne som sanskriteposet Ramayana, utgivet och översatt av S. Goldschmidt ("Ravanavaha oder Setubandha. Prakrt und deutsch", 1880-1884), Vakpati's Gaudavahd, från slutet av 600- eller början av 700-talet, utgiven av Shankar Pandurang Pandit ("The Gaudavaho. A historical poem in prakrit by Vakpati", i "Bombay sanskrit series", 1887). Vidare är en del av jainismens icke-kanoniska skrifter skrivna på en i något modifierad form av maharastri. Dettas mest framträdande skillnad i förhållande till andra prakritdialekter är reduktionen av enkla konsonanter i inljud mellan vokaler, genom vilken ett stort antal homonymer har uppkommit. Maharastri härstammar, liksom alla prakritdialekter, direkt från sanskrit.
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  • Maharashtri, is a language of ancient and medieval India, descended from Prakrit, and spoken in what is now Maharashtra and other parts of India. It is the ancestor of Marathi,Konkani,Divehi and Sinhalese as well. It is one of the many languages (often called dialects) of a complex called Prakrit, and the chief Dramatic Prakrit. Its literary use was made famous by the playwright Kalidasa. Maharashtri was the most popular amongst all Prakrit languages.
  • Maharashtri var en dialekt av prakrit och officiellt språk i Satavahanariket, och motsvaras av det moderna marathispråket. Dialekten talades i västra Indien i trakten kring och söder om nuvarande Bombay, alltså språket i det gamla Maharashtra, marather. Maharashtri är den prakritdialekt som har producerat den rikaste litteraturen.
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