Prakrit

How To Use Prakrit In A Sentence

• All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
• Besides these hitherto unknown forms of Prâkrit, Central Asia has astonished the learned world with two new languages, both written in a special variety of the Brahmi alphabet called Central Asian Gupta. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
• And what Kamat calls "Prakrit" actually subsumes various Indo-Aryan languages all over the subcontinent, many of which must have been, by the time of Christ, less mutually intelligible with each other than Tamil was from Kannada at that time. Languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
• (“Friendship-boon”) of Prakrit, avowedly compiled from the “Panchatantra,” became the Hindu Panchopakhyan, the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Eternal and Fixed, He that is possessed of beautiful limbs, (or, He the ascension unto whom is the best of all acts), He who has such knowledge having penance for its indication that He is able to agitable Prakriti for evolving the universe out of her (CXIV -- CXXII); He that goes everywhere (in the sense of pervading all things as their cause), the The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
• Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin.
• Besides many pious foundations, he engraved on rocks and pillars throughout his empire in true Achaemenid-style edicts in vernacular Prakrit exhorting respect for animal life, reverence, and truth, and appointed censors to enforce these injunctions. C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia
• Aakash, venerated sage and healer, is the founder of Prakriti -- an abundant farm in the Himalayas. The Seduction of Silence: Summary and book reviews of The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte.
• In other words, when monks in China set out to accomplish a translation from Sanskrit or Prakrit into Chinese, it wasn't the work of a single person who could read both; rather, they would bring together people who could read Indian languages and people who could write Chinese, together with whatever chain of spoken translators was required to link them. Languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA.
• The council also oversaw the translation, from Prakrit into Sanskrit, of the Sarvastivada version of The Three Basket-like Collections and the writing down of these Sanskrit texts. A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions