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Definition of Prakritic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Prakrit.
Definition of Prakritic
1. a. Pertaining to Prakrit.
Definition of Prakritic
1. Adjective. Relating to Prakrit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prakritic
Literary usage of Prakritic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Hindi Language: In which are Treated the Standard Hindí by Samuel Henry Kellogg (1876)
"in the case of words with initial cerebrals, over three-fourths are prakritic;
while of words with an initial le, five-sixths are Sanskrit. ..."
2. Notes on Aryan and Dravidian Philology by M. Seshagiri Sastri (1884)
"The Classical Sanskrit also exhibits a great deal of those modifications and
corruptions which constitute the peculiar feature of the prakritic languages- ..."
3. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Bhāvadevasūri (1919)
"347, is probably a mere matter of prakritic writing, as often in Sanskrit manuscripts
... Finally prakritic influence is at the back of an occasional hyper- ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1879)
"... themselves are modern formations capable of being used alone, and are traceable
to well-known Sanskrit roots through processes partly prakritic and ..."
5. A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies by Robert Needham Cust (1878)
"It is a pure prakritic Language, which separated from the parent stock at a very
remote ... He states that it is a prakritic Language, and it is therefore ..."
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