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Pāli is a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is widely studied as the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism and the language of the Tipiṭaka. Pali was designated a classical language of India by the Gove
19th century Burmese Kammavācā (confession for Buddhist monks), written in Pali on gilded palm leaf
Prakrit
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Prakrit is a group of vernacular classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE. The term Prakrit is usually app
Pali
…of the term to mean "a series of books", so pāḷibhāsā means "language of the texts". However, modern scholarship has regarded Pali as a mix of several Prakrits from around the 3rd century BCE, combined and partially Sanskritized. There is no attested dialect of Middle Indo-Aryan with all the features of Pali…
Word for "Prakrit" (here Prā-kṛ-te) in Gupta script (a.k.a. Late Brahmi script) in the Mandsaur stone inscription of Yashodharman-Vishnuvardhana, 532 CE
The Sūryaprajñaptisūtra, an astronomical work written in Jain Prakrit language (in Devanagari book script), c. 1500