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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...
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Dramatic Prakrits were
those standard forms of
Prakrit dialects that were used in
dramas and
other literature in
medieval India. They may have once been...
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Shauraseni Prakrit (Sanskrit: शौरसेनी प्राकृत, Śaurasenī Prākṛta) was a
Middle Indo-Aryan
language and a
Dramatic Prakrit.
Shauraseni was the
chief language...
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Ashokan Prakrit (or Aśokan Prākṛta) is the
Middle Indo-Aryan
dialect continuum used in the
Edicts of Ashoka,
attributed to
Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan...
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Magadhi Prakrit (Māgadhī) is of one of the
three Dramatic Prakrits, the
written languages of
Ancient India following the
decline of Pali and Sanskrit....
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Maharashtri or
Maharashtri Prakrit (Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta) is a
Prakrit language of
ancient as well as
medieval India.
Maharashtri Prakrit was
commonly spoken until...
- Indo-Aryan
language family. It
descends from Odra
Prakrit which itself evolved from
Magadhi Prakrit. The
latter was
spoken in east
India over 1,500 years...
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direct descendant of an
early form of
Vedic Sanskrit,
through Shauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from
Sanskrit apabhraṃśa "corrupt"),
which emerged...
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argued that the true or
geographical name of the Pali
language was
Magadhi Prakrit, and that
because pāḷi
means "line, row, series", the
early Buddhists extended...
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Khasa Prakrit (also
known as Khas
Prakrit,
Sanskrit Khasa,
Himalayan Prakrit,
Northern Prakrit, Khas Kura) is a
Prakrit language of
medieval India and...