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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prakrit \Pra"krit\, n. [Skr. pr[=a]k[.r]ta original, natural, usual, common, vulgar.] Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Prakrit n 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