Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Prakrit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prakrit \Pra"krit\, n. [Skr. pr[=a]k[.r]ta original, natural,
usual, common, vulgar.]
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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