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Prakrit
Etymology
Ashokan Prakrit 𑀚𑀦 (jana) Prakrit 𑀚𑀡 (jaṇa)
Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀚𑀦 (jana), from Sanskrit जन॑ (jána), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ánHas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os, from *ǵenh₁- + *-os.
Noun
𑀚𑀡 (jaṇa) m (Devanagari जण, Kannada ಜಣ) (Māhārāṣṭrī) [1][2]
- person
c. 200 CE – 600 CE,
Hāla,
Gāhā Sattasaī 201:
- अच्छउ ता जणवाओ हिअअं चिअ अत्तणो तुह पमाणं ।
तह तं सि मंदणेहो जह ण उवालंभजोग्गो सि ॥- acchaü tā jaṇavāo hiaaṃ cia attaṇo tuha pamāṇaṃ .
taha taṃ si maṃdaṇeho jaha ṇa uvālaṃbhajŏggo si .
- 2009 translation by Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken
- Never mind the gossip :
Judge by your own feelings.
Anyway,
You have grown so cool
That you are beyond reproach.
Declension
Descendants
- Apabhramsa: जण (jaṇa) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Sheth, Hargovind Das T (1923–1928) “जण”, in पाइअ-सद्द-महण्णवो [pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo, Ocean of Prakrit words] (in Hindi), Calcutta: .
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jána”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 281