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Raven Silverwings wrote: > Well, I learned something new today! :) There was an indian language > that I read about that shared the difficultness of Sanskrit, and was > about the same antiquity, but, since you know more about, do you > think you know about it? Would the language of the Prakrits be that > one?"Prakrit" simply means vernacular, i.e. an Indian language other than Sanskrit.
"Sanskrit" means "perfected" i.e. codified: it is the language of Hindu holy poetry as frozen by grammarians. Its pre-Sanskrit form is called Vedic.
To get back to your question, perhaps your informant was referring to Pali, the language of Buddhist scripture.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/