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Definition of: Prakrit
(prä′krit) noun
The popular dialects or any one of the vernaculars of northern and central India, arising from or connected with Sanskrit, and forming a link between Sanskrit and the modern Indic languages. [<Skt. prakṛtā natural, common, lit., created before <pra- before + kṛ do. Cf. SANSKRIT.]
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