Old Marathi

proper noun

An early New Indo-Aryan language and the ancestor of modern Marathi, spoken from c. 1000–1300 CE which is found in works such as the Jñānēśvarī and Līlācaritra.

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proper noun
  1. An early New Indo-Aryan language and the ancestor of modern Marathi, spoken from c. 1000–1300 CE which is found in works such as the Jñānēśvarī and Līlācaritra.

    Several Old Marathi inscriptions are found in Kannada script, while several Old Kannada inscriptions are available in Devanāgarī.

    1993, Madhav Deshpande, Sanskrit & Prakrit, Sociolinguistic Issues, Motilal Banarsidass, page 117
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