Prakrit
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Prakrit
1780–90; < Sanskrit prākṛta, derivative of prakṛti; see prakriti
Example Sentences
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Case in point: In 2019, a pair of high school iNaturalist users, Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain, came across a scorpion they couldn’t identify in California.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
Prakrit Jain of Los Altos and Harper Forbes of Sunnyvale traveled to dry lakes in California last year to collect scorpion specimens using a black light.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes were not always interested in scorpions.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2022
Such subjects were congenial to the later Jain writers and they not only cultivated both Sanskrit and Prakrit but also had a vivifying effect on the vernaculars of southern India.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
The fashion is to write the body of the work in Sanskrit and Prakrit, but the songs in Maithili.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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