Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit is a mixed literary language used in many Mahāyāna and other Buddhist texts, combining elements of classical Sanskrit with Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) features.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language variety
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literary language ⓘ mixed language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
BHS
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Buddhist Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Middle Indo-Aryan languages
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Prakrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Indian subcontinent
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North India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticBranch | Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFamily | Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticSubfamily | Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCorpus |
Divyāvadāna
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Lalitavistara Sūtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāvastu NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of the Prajñāpāramitā literature ⓘ |
| incorporatesFeaturesOf |
Classical Sanskrit
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Middle Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gāndhārī
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Pāli NERFINISHED ⓘ local Middle Indo-Aryan dialects ⓘ |
| scriptUsed |
Brāhmī script
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Gupta script NERFINISHED ⓘ various regional Indic scripts ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
Buddhist philology
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Indo-Aryan historical linguistics ⓘ comparative Buddhist studies ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early centuries of the Common Era
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roughly 1st century BCE to 6th century CE ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
Middle Indo-Aryan sandhi patterns
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Prakrit phonology with Sanskritized morphology ⓘ Prakrit-like verbal forms ⓘ Sanskrit vocabulary with Middle Indo-Aryan grammar ⓘ Sanskritized Prakrit lexicon ⓘ mixed morphological system ⓘ non-standard Sanskrit forms ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity |
Buddhist monastic communities
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Buddhist scholars ⓘ Buddhist scribes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
translation into Chinese
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translation into Tibetan ⓘ transmission of Buddhist doctrine ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Buddhist avadāna texts
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Buddhist literature ⓘ Buddhist narrative literature ⓘ Buddhist sūtras ⓘ Buddhist vinaya-related works ⓘ Mahāyāna Buddhist texts ⓘ non-Mahāyāna Buddhist texts ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.