Sigiri Graffiti ; Being Sinhalese Verses of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Centuries: Introduction and platesDepartment of Government Print., Sri Lanka for the Department of National Museums, 1982 - 472 Seiten |
Inhalt
PREFACE | xlix |
SIGIRI ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION | i |
THE DOCUMENTS AND THEIR DECIPHER | vii |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented anusvāra Aśoka become bhūta Brahmi inscriptions Ceylon coalesce Colombo conditional mood conservative tendency consonants declension derived from Skt documents dravya-nouns dropping earlier edited by Bhadanta elision epenthesis evolution examples expressed feminine final vowel Geiger gender gerund graffiti grammar heavy syllable indicate indicative mood inflexion instance intervocalic later letter literary literature long vowels mātrās meaning medial metre Middle Indian modern morae Nāga nasal occurring Old Indian old Sinhalese origin pāda Pāli participle period person phonetic changes phonological phonological process plural poet poetics poetry Prakrit preceding preserved preterite progressive tendency pronounced referred reflexive voice rule sandhi Sanskrit script Sdsg second syllable sentence Sigiri singular Sinhalese language sivupada stage stanza stem suffix taken tense tenth century termination umlaut verb verbal forms verbal noun verses vertical stroke virāma vowel-assimilation words