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Definition of Prakrit

1. Noun. Any of the modern Indic languages.

2. Noun. Any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.

Definition of Prakrit

1. n. Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Definition of Prakrit

1. Proper noun. Any of a broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prakrit

Pradesh Praetorian Praetorian Guard Praetorians Prag Prague Praguian Praguians Praha Praia

Prairial Prairie State Prajapati Prajesh Prakash Prakrit (current term) Prakritic Prakrits Prangli Prato

Praunus Pravachol Praxiteles Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children Pre-Cana Pre-Greek Pre-Raphaelite Pre-Raphaelites Preacher

Literary usage of Prakrit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Often as many as 10 different forms of Prakrit are thus introduced in a single ... Distinguished again from Prakrit proper, or perhaps rather as its lowest ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Some of these do not contain more than 7000 slokas. or distichs, but others amount to 18000, 25.000, or even 100000 slokas. Prakrit ..."

3. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"The Prakrit languages (for they are many: the idea is plural) include numerous ... The Pali and Prakrit dialects represent the middle age of the Sanskrit. ..."

4. Rāja-çekhara's Karpūra-mañjarī: a drama by the Indian poet Rājaçekhara by Rājaśekhara, Sten Konow, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1901)
"As far as we know, he himself wrote only in Sanskrit and Prakrit. ... These are the only Prakrit dialects which occur in the writings of ..."

5. Rāja-çekhara's Karpūra-mañjarī: a drama by the Indian poet Rājaçekhara by Rājaśekhara, Sten Konow, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1901)
"Thus most of the authors who have written on Prakrit grammar and lexicography are Jainas. And the circumstance that the Jainas chose the ..."

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