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- Prakrit (/ˈprɑːkrɪt/) is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
- ‘Pali’ is an extinct language now although ‘Prakrit’ is still being used in several parts of India like it has been for a thousand years or so.
- Given, however, that we will spend most of our time reading Prakrit texts, you will have to choose at what level you are willing and able to engage with these texts.
- In contrast, the view most commonly held by Prakrit grammarians holds that the Prakrit languages are vernaculars that arose from Sanskrit.
- Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit: prākṛta प्राकृत, Shauraseni:pāuda पाउद, Maharashtri:pāua पाउअ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular...
- Asoka left behind 30 inscriptions in Prakrit. Even in literature prakrit came to be used particularly in plays. And prakrit itself consists of different dialects.
- Prakrit refers to one of the four major languages prevalent in ancient India, according to the 8th-century Kuvalayamālā written by Uddyotanasūri, a Pr...
- The most prominent form of Prakrit is Ardhamāgadhı, associated with the ancient kingdom of Magadha, in modern Bihar, and the subsequent Mauryan Empire.
- The Prakrits are usually classified as Middle Indic languages that followed the Old Indic stage of Sanskrit and Vedic but preceded the Modern Indic period.
- Prakrits were spoken in northern and central India: •Māhārāṣṭrī in western India, corresponding approximately to the state of Maharashtra.