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A Brief History of Prakrit and Sanskrit

Arijit Bose
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Lucknow: Prakrit refers to a bunch of languages that belonged to different epochs in different regions of ancient India, as it represents the changing aspect of the spoken language. So they are studied in three main time periods i) The Ancient Period 2500 BCE to 500 CE – The Prakrit language used in this period is mostly termed Pali, based on the literature available from these times, which are mostly Buddhist sources. Some of the key features are that the dual number (dvivacana) is left out, ṣa and śa sounds…

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