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  1. General name for the ancient Indo-European
  2. dialects of N India, contrasted with the
  3. sacred classical language Sanskrit. The word
  4. is itself Sanskrit, meaning `natural', as
  5. opposed to Sanskrit, which means `perfected'.
  6. The Prakrits are considered to be the
  7. ancestors of such modern N Indian languages
  8. as Hindi, Punjabi, and Bengali.
  9.