Prakrit

American

[prah-krit, -kreet] / ˈprɑ krɪt, -krit /

noun

any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.

Prakrit British

/ ˈprɑːkrɪt /

noun

any of the vernacular Indic languages as distinguished from Sanskrit: spoken from about 300 _bc to the Middle Ages See also Pali

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Prakritic

adjective

Etymology

Origin of Prakrit

1780–90; < Sanskrit prākṛta, derivative of prakṛti; see prakriti

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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

For this reason the priests of this religion prefer to write in the dialects used by the people, and indeed some of their principal works are written in Prakrit or in Pali.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta

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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