The Māgadhī is one of the five Prākṛt languages spoken in Maghada, today's South Bihar. Already in the 6th century BC Magadha was an important kingdom, later it became the central empire of the empires of the Mauryas (4th-2nd century BC), the Guptas (4th-6th centuries) and the Pālas (8th-12th centuries). c.). The Māgadhī thus represents the eastern version of the later Middle Indo-Aryan languages dar. The oldest documents are from the 3rd century BC. assigned Jogimārā inscription.
After the scientific work on the most important Middle Indo-Aryan languages was published by Harrassowitz Verlag, the internationally renowned indologist Klaus Mylius rounds off the overall presentation of Prākṛt languages with the present volume. The knowledge of the Māgadhī is essential for the understanding of ancient Indian dramas. To facilitate language comparison, the Māgadhī is consistently linked to Sanskrit. In addition, the grammar is a dictionary of the relation Māgadhī-German connected.
