Paisaci, also known as Paisachi, or Paishachi, is an extinct language of classical India, its existence as a medium of debate and literary expression is recorded in various Theravada Buddhist sources, and mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. There are no extant works in this language today, although archaeology may yet uncover them.

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  • Paisaci, also known as Paisachi, or Paishachi, is an extinct language of classical India, its existence as a medium of debate and literary expression is recorded in various Theravada Buddhist sources, and mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. There are no extant works in this language today, although archaeology may yet uncover them. One famous work was supposedly the Brihat-katha, or Brahatkatham (Ocean of Stories), a collection of short stories written in the 5th century BC. It is known of through its adaptation in Sanskrit as the Katha-Saritsagara in the 11th century by Somadeva. One of the famous series of stories in this work is the Vikram and Vetaal series. The Sanskrit etymology of the name of the language (suggesting that it means "Spoken by Demons") is deemed by modern scholars to be either jocular or simply false. As with most languages, the name seems to be devolved from a toponym associated with the origin or homeland of the language. It is not precisely known to what extent this was a vernacular or an artificial, literary language, comparable to Pāli.
  • Пайшачи — одна из форм пракрита. Согласно мифам, язык пишачей — вредоносных демонов, пожирателей человеческого мяса (под которыми, возможно, подразумевалось какое-то племя аборигенов, вступившее в конфликт с ариями). На нём якобы говорили представители самых презренных сословий, и в целом язык «превосходен для ругательств». Исходная область распространения — северо-запад Индии или район Уджайни. Ныне существующите тексты на пайшачи неизвестны. Одним из таких текстов, возможно, была Брихат-катха или Брахаткатхам (Океан историй), сборник коротких рассказов, созданный в V веке до н. э. и известный благодаря переложению на санскрит Сомадэвы (Катха-Саритасагара, XI в. ) Язык пайшачи (тиб. sha-za'i skad) использовался раннебуддийской школой самматия, чей основатель Упали происходил из шудр.
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  • Paisaci, also known as Paisachi, or Paishachi, is an extinct language of classical India, its existence as a medium of debate and literary expression is recorded in various Theravada Buddhist sources, and mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. There are no extant works in this language today, although archaeology may yet uncover them.
  • Пайшачи — одна из форм пракрита. Согласно мифам, язык пишачей — вредоносных демонов, пожирателей человеческого мяса (под которыми, возможно, подразумевалось какое-то племя аборигенов, вступившее в конфликт с ариями).
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  • Paisaci
  • Пайшачи
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