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
Prakrit literature includes the Agamas, Agama-tulya texts, and Siddhanta texts.
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It consists of the three qualities of sattva, rajas and tamas, such as prakrit, mahat, ahankara etc.
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This may be the reason he was one of the earliest significant Buddhist thinkers to write in classical Sanskrit rather than a prakrit.
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Prakrit grammarians would give the full grammar of Ardhamagadhi first, and then define the other grammars with relation to it.
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Any of the modern Indic languages
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
Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit) is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. ...
One of the "natural" languages of later schismatic Hindu scripts. Three have been used by the Jains.