Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the vernacular and literary Indic languages recorded from the third century BC to the fourth century AD, as opposed to Sanskrit.
- noun Any of the modern Indic languages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The collective name of those dialects which succeed the Sanskrit in the historical development of the language of India.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
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- proper noun any of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the modern Indic languages
- 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
Etymologies
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Besides many pious foundations, he engraved on rocks and pillars throughout his empire in true Achaemenid-style edicts in vernacular Prakrit exhorting respect for animal life, reverence, and truth, and appointed censors to enforce these injunctions.
C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001
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And what Kamat calls "Prakrit" actually subsumes various Indo-Aryan languages all over the subcontinent, many of which must have been, by the time of Christ, less mutually intelligible with each other than Tamil was from Kannada at that time.
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Mahâsanghikas in a kind of Prakrit not further specified and the
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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Roma langwaj habs menny menny werds in kommun wif teh anshint Indien langwaj Prakrit.
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Hitopadesa (chapt. i.) transferred to all the Prakrit versions of
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(“Friendship-boon”) of Prakrit, avowedly compiled from the “Panchatantra,” became the Hindu Panchopakhyan, the
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Buddha taught in the Prakrit (Tha-mal-pa) dialect of Magadha (Yul Ma-ga-dha), but nothing was written down during his lifetime.
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions 2007
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The council also oversaw the translation, from Prakrit into Sanskrit, of the Sarvastivada version of The Three Basket-like Collections and the writing down of these Sanskrit texts.
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions 2007
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In other words, when monks in China set out to accomplish a translation from Sanskrit or Prakrit into Chinese, it wasn't the work of a single person who could read both; rather, they would bring together people who could read Indian languages and people who could write Chinese, together with whatever chain of spoken translators was required to link them.
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Etymology: Hindi & Marathi mãgus, from Prakrit mamgusa
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