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