| Ancient tongues Tamil and Prakrit are rich with literary contributions from the Jain monks. |
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| Kannada too has always borrowed from Sanskrit, Prakrit, Marathi, Parsi, Arabic, and so on at various points. |
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| All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit. |
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| Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin. |
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| The whole grammar and the basic vocabulary originate from the Prakrit, a derivate of the Sanskrit. |
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| Prakrit languages are related to Sanskrit but differ from and are contrasted with it in several ways. |
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| Jains were similarly influential in the Prakrit languages, Apabhramsha, Old Gujarati, and, later, Sanskrit. |
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| A particular interest in the NW Middle Indic dialects, as evidenced in the Agokan inscriptions in Kharosthi script and Niya Prakrit? |
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| Later in northern India Shauraseni Prakrit gave rise to Shauraseni Aparbhsha, which was a degenerated form of Prakrit. |
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| From the 3rd century BCE onwards Prakrit and Pali literature in the north and the Tamil Sangam literature in southern India started to flourish. |
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| Although obviously of Indian origin, Niya Prakrit also shows influences of its new Central Asian homeland. |
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| These all languages are called Prakrit language collectively. |
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| Bengali developed from Sanskrit and Magadhi Prakrit in the 11th century. |
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