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Webster 1913 Edition
Prakrit
Pra′krit
,Noun.
[Skr.
prākṛta
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.