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Sanskrit is the oldest language and literature of the world. Prakrit was the deformed version of pure classical Sanskrit and was spoken language of the then common people. Later on Prakrit transformed as Pali and then into several forms as Maagadhi, Maithili, Bhojpuri...etc./etc....finally as Hindi.

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