भाषान्तरेषु विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

The Dravidian language Tamil retains a large number of old loans from Maharashtri Prakrit, even though its descendent language Marathi does not. This suggests that the prakritic base of other IA languages were overlayed by a secondary layer derived from a later degeneration of Sanskrit. This secondary layer is actually a Pan-Indian phenomenon and could represent the point of normalization of the Pan-Indian Sanskritic elite with respect to the Prakritic masses.

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