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जैन विद्या एवं प्राकृत : अन्तरशास्त्रीय अध्ययन
To summarise Chatterji's Chronology. OIA 1500 (or 1200) BC
600 BC Ist MIA 600 BC
200 BC Transitional MIA 200 BC
200 AD 2nd MIA 200 AD - (500 or) 600 AD 3rd MIA 600 AD
1000 AD MIA 1000 AD
onwards.
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Chatterji, as is obvious from his expositions, has just made a rough and tentative remark on Indo-Aryan chronology, he has not presented any basis of evidence for his assumptions. But this is the accepted date at present, by linguists in India and abroad.
I have proposed a much different picture of Indo-Aryan chronology in my above mentioned recently published work, viz., Fresh Light on Indo-European Classification and Chronology, where I have produced evidence for my assumptions. I quote below the relevant', for IndoAryan (vide p. 98). Old Indo-Aryan
2000 BC
1000 BC 1st Middle Indo-Aryan
1000 BC
600 BC 2nd Middle Indo-Aryan
600 BC
300 BC 3rd Middle Indo-Aryan
300 BC
001 BC New Indo-Aryan
001 AD
onwards.
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Without going into the details of each stage I will now take up the Second Middle Indo-Aryan stage only, where Ardha-Māgadhi, Sauraseni, Magadhi, Mahāri strī etc. are included. Prof. Chatterji considers Ardha
hi of Second MIA stage to have 2nd century AD as the starting point. But according to my linguistic chronology 2nd MIA (Amg) starts from 6th century BC. Chatterji's presentation does not claim his chronology to be final and he has not shown any evidence to justify his propositions. He has simply made a casual statement just to link up his material with the historical development. On the other hand
The summary of the chronological estimate from IE to IndoAryan is as follows (p. 98) Indo-European
5000 BC
3500 BC Satem
3500 BC
2500 BC Indo-Iranian
2500 BC
2000 BC Indo-Aryan
2000 BC
onwards.
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