{"id":1108,"date":"2010-10-21T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2010-10-17T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:28:13","slug":"aarsha-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/10\/21\/aarsha-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarsha: Do as I say, not as I say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Classical Sanskrit was defined by the grammarian P\u0101\u1e47ini and exemplified by the language of the epic literature especially including the Mahabharata and the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a. \u00a0But the theory was always tighter than the practice, and the language of the epics includes non-Paninian forms, usually influences from spoken language(s), which eventually became Hindi\/Urdu and other north Indian languages.<\/p>\n

But it’s a little bit of a problem: how do you handle these exceptions? \u00a0Traditional scholarship calls these forms “\u0101r\u1e63a”, “of the \u1e5b\u1e63i”. As I understand it, it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I say.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Classical Sanskrit was defined by the grammarian P\u0101\u1e47ini and exemplified by the language of the epic literature especially including the Mahabharata and the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a. \u00a0But the theory was always tighter than the practice, and the language of the epics includes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1675,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}