Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit language

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit language

      Middle Indo-Aryan literary language, a Prākrit dialect heavily infiltrated with Sanskrit, in which the texts of the northern Buddhist scriptures were written. It was developed before the Christian era; its Sanskrit influence originated in the Mahāyāna Buddhists' use of Sanskrit in their writings.

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