What's the difference between pali and prakrit?

Pali


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Palus.
  • (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
  • (pl. ) of Palus

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  • (1) Capillary microthrombosis may then paly a part in producing the mucosal necrosis seen later in the disease.
  • (2) These findings speak to the role opioid peptides paly in the mediation of brain stimulation reward.
  • (3) The restriction endonucleases BamHI, PalI, XhoI, and BglI together with BglII were isolated by elution of the dye column with linear gradients to 0.5 M NaCl.
  • (4) Nick Bubb, retail analyst at Pali International, said Baugur's assets would be in demand despite the recession : "There should be enough interest in most of its chains to attract buyers, perhaps from private equity firms," Bubb predicted.
  • (5) He established his prowess in philosophy at Oxford University, graduating in 1949, and subsequently in Sanskrit and Pali, the language of the Buddhist scriptures, at Yale.
  • (6) Hybridization of a cloned monomer satellite from O. niloticus (type III) to PalI digests of genomic DNA from all three genera detected polymorphic, high molecular weight restriction fragments that produced fingerprint-like patterns.
  • (7) In addition, three patients showed some impairment of conjugate ocular motility in the form of upward gaze paly.
  • (8) Ukip, the Front National in France, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary are using the crisis to stoke up fears of 'invasion' A few days before the elections, Yiorgos Palis, a candidate then with Syriza in Lesbos and now MP for the island, told me that “the far-right showed its face here, but the people kept their cool”.

Prakrit


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

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