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- Prakrit was used in the production of inscriptions, administrative accounts, religious doctrines, secular narratives, plays and songs. This led to the circulation of a wide variety of literature that acted as complimentary sources of information along with Sanskrit literature in ancient and early medieval India.
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Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit , texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.
While Prakrits were originally seen as 'lower' forms of language, the influence they had on Sanskrit – allowing it to be more easily used by the common people – as well as the converse influence of Sanskrit on the Prakrits, gave Prakrits progressively higher cultural prestige.
How can we characterize Prakrit, as a language and as a literary tradition? The most straightforward answer might be to provide a systematic account of its dif-ferences from other languages, and specifically from Sanskrit. For Sanskrit and Prakrit are sister languages: we recognize one by contrast with the other. Prakrit
The aesthetics of Prakrit literature had an enormous influence on Sanskrit writings, and Prakrit textual evidences by throwing light on the sociocultural forces in the ancient and medieval Indian society acted as supplementary sources of information for the reconstruction of Indian history.
Ardhamāgadhı̄ and some other forms of Prakrit became learned, literary languages, much like Classical Sanskrit, but at the earliest period originated as either genuine vernacular dialects, or as lingua francas based on such dialects.
Among experts, the question of the “reality” of Prakrit, or Sanskrit for that matter, has been debated for more than a century: where, when, and among whom did these languages exist, and what was their mode of exis-tence? Were they spoken or written, natural or artificial?
Sanskrit: formative period (1400–400 bc) The oldest document in the literature of South Asia is the Rigveda, or Veda of the Stanzas ( c. 1400 bc ), the fundamental text of Brahminical Hinduism. Not literary but religious-magical in its purposes, it is mostly a compilation of hymns, dedicated to a number of gods of the Vedic religion .
