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Prakrit Moderate

Prakrit has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of the modern Indic languages

2

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

Proper Noun
1

Any one of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages, all derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

See Also
sauraseni prakrit gāndhārī tadbhava prakritic pali
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Rhyming Words
rit brit crit writ trit frit grit marit mcrit ivrit nurit berit merit sprit torit dorit zerit afrit ifrit qutrit
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