Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit: ) is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Classical Sanskrit and other Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of [[Sanskrit|]]. Alternatively, Prakrit can be taken to mean "derived from an original," for example, derived from Sanskrit.… (More on Prakrit)