As a deity name
Name 928 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 952 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
प्राकृत · adj
प्रकृति से उत्पन्न या प्रकृति संबंधी · स्वाभाविक । नैसर्गिक · भौतिक — Śabdasāgara
प्राकृत · noun · feminine
बोलचाल की भाषा जिसका प्रचार किसी समय किसी प्रांत में हो अथवा रहा हो · एक प्राचीन भाषा जिसका प्रचार प्राचीन काल में भारत में था और जो प्राचीन संस्कृत नाटकों आदि में स्त्रियों, सेवकों और साधारण व्यक्तियों की बोलचाल में तथा अलग ग्रंथों में पाई जाती है । भारत की बालचाल की भाषाएँ बोलचाल की प्राकृतों से बनी हैं · पराशर मुनि के मत से बुध ग्रह की सात प्रकार की गतियों में पहली और उस समय की गति जब वह स्वाती भरणी और कृत्तिका में रहता है । यह चालीस दिन की होती है और इसमें आरोग्य, वृष्टि, धान्य की वृद्धि और मंगल होता है — Śabdasāgara
प्राकृत · prākr̤it · adj.
Original, natural, not artificial, essential, unchanged, unaltered, unmodified; normal, ordinary, usual, common, uncultivated, unrefined, provincial, plebeian, vulgar; vernacular — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 236
प्राकृत · feminine
Prakrit (Middle Indo-Aryan, as opposed to Old Indo-Aryan Sanskrit and late MIA Apabhramsha); the Prakrit languages as a group; Prakrit (Middle Indo-Aryan, as opposed to Old Indo-Aryan Sanskrit and late MIA Apabhramsha); any one of the Prakrits
प्राकृत
original, natural; without any refinement; artless, normal, ordinary, usual; material, physical; low, vulgar, unrefined, illiterate
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्राकृत — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्राकृत (prākṛta).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
prā—kṛta See s.v.
prākṛta mf(ā, or ī)n. (fr. pra-kṛti) original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual, ŚBr. &c. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
āī (fr. pra-kṛti) original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual, &c. &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
prā—kṛta See s.v.
prākṛta mf(ā, or ī)n. (fr. pra-kṛti) original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual, ŚBr. &c. &c.
low, vulgar, unrefined, Mn.; MBh. &c.
provincial, vernacular, Prākritic, Vcar.
(in Sāṃkhya) belonging to or derived from Prakṛti or the original element
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