Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Prakrit \Pra"krit\, n. [Skr. pr[=a]k[.r]ta original, natural,
   usual, common, vulgar.]
   Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to,
   Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used
   as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by
   the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Source : WordNet®

Prakrit
     n 1: any of the modern Indic languages
     2: any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central
        India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the
        3rd century BC to the 4th century AD