Described and standardized by Panini in the 6th century BC, it  had been in use for at least 1300 years before that. It has t
Described and standardized by Panini in the 6th century BC, it  had been in use for at least 1300 years before that. It has three  numbers, eight cases, and three genders and its complex structure  spawned a number of vernaculars called Prakrit languages. Written  in the Devanagari script, it gave rise to such modern languages as  Sindhi, Urdu, and Hindi. For ten points, name this classical  language of India.
Described and standardized by Panini in the 6th century BC, it  had been in use for at least 1300 years before that.