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question:You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer. Question: In Ancient India, which vernacular languages existed alongside Sanskrit? Is Sanskrit, as the learned language of Ancient India, thus existed alongside the vernacular Prakrits, which were Middle Indo-Aryan languages. a good answer to this question?

answer:Yes, your answer does provide an overview of the linguistic situation in Ancient India. However, a more detailed and elaborate answer would also discuss the specific Prakrit languages and other vernacular languages that coexisted with Sanskrit. Here's an example of a more detailed response: In Ancient India, Sanskrit was the scholarly language and played an important role in the fields of art, literature, religion, philosophy, and science. However, it coexisted with a variety of regional vernacular languages, particularly those belonging to the Middle Indo-Aryan language family, known as the Prakrits. These were the everyday speech of people in ancient India, and they evolved over time into distinct regional languages. The major Prakrit languages include: 1. Pali: This language was primarily used in the Buddhist tradition and much of the early Buddhist texts like the Pali Canon (Tipitaka) were written in this language. Pali was an important lingua franca among the Indian Buddhist community during the Ashokan period and later. 2. Ardhamagadhi: This language was primarily used by the Jain tradition, as the majority of their sacred texts were composed in this language. It is considered one of the oldest Prakrits that originated in the eastern part of ancient India, mainly corresponding to modern-day Bihar and Jharkhand. 3. Maharashtri: Also called Jnanpith, it was used in the western and central parts of India, including present-day Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. The famous Prakrit kavya, or poetry, Gathasattasai by the female poet Hala is written in this language. 4. Shauraseni Prakrit: It is also known as Classical Prakrit and was widely spoken in the north-central region of ancient India. The famous Sanskrit dramatist Kalidasa used this language in his dramas for conversation among common people. 5. Magadhi Prakrit: This Prakrit language was spoken primarily in the Magadha region (now Bihar and parts of West Bengal) and the adjacent areas of West Bengal, and Odisha. 6. Gandhari: This Prakrit language was spoken in the Gandhara region, which corresponds to present-day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It was the language of the Kharosthi inscription, which was one of the earliest recorded forms of writing from Ancient India. Apart from Prakrits, Ancient India also witnessed the development of Dravidian languages in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. While not directly related to Sanskrit or Prakrits, these distinct languages included Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu, among others. Tamil, in particular, has a rich literary heritage with the earliest known Tamil literature dating back to the Sangam period (circa 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE). In conclusion, while Sanskrit was the learned language in Ancient India, it existed alongside the vernacular Prakrits – which were Middle Indo-Aryan languages – as well as other regional languages like the Dravidian languages of South India. These languages served a variety of functions, such as religious worship and literature, and helped shape the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent.

question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. Article: The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross is heading to Damascus for talks with President Bashar Assad on issues including caring for the sick and wounded in the government's crackdown on dissidents. The ICRC said its president, Jakob Kellenberger, will start a two-day visit to Damascus later Saturday. He also will meet Prime Minister Adel Safar and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. Kellenberger visited Syria in June. The Red Cross says the latest trip's aim is to review progress following an understanding then to give it "enhanced access" to troubled areas and hold negotiations on ICRC visits to detainees. It says ensuring the sick and wounded have access to care will be "among the particularly urgent humanitarian challenges to be addressed." ||||| The protesters and family members gather outside hospitals in Syria for what has become a grim routine of the uprising against President Bashar Assad 's regime: reaching out for the dead and wounded, trying to wrest their bodies away from security forces.Syrian troops and security officers on Friday seized at least 15 more dead and injured protesters from two hospitals in the suburbs of Damascus , the capital, firing on relatives of the victims and others, according to witnesses and activists.The struggle over the dead and dying underscores how hospitals, medical workers and even corpses have become weapons for the government and its supporters as they try to crush a nearly 6-month-old protest movement against Assad's rule.With security forces largely in control of public medical care, "people prefer to die rather than go to a hospital," Khaled, a demonstrator, said Friday in the eastern city of Dair Alzour, where activists said three of the day's estimated 18 deaths occurred.Khaled, who like many protesters asked that his full name not be used for safety reasons, described an instance this week at a hospital in his city. Activists had learned that a wounded confederate had been taken to a hospital, he said, only to be left to bleed to death by medical workers sympathetic to the regime. The body was confiscated by security forces, Khaled said, and has not been released to the man's family.Deprivation of medical care and misuse of hospitals have become "routine, systematic," said Wissam Tarif, an activist now outside Syria. "What we have seen is security forces based in the hospitals. It is the security forces that have control of the hospitals, and in most cases the medical personnel cannot do anything about it."Accounts from Tarif and other activists Friday detailed some of the abuses: security forces seizing the bodies of slain activists to block mourners from holding funerals, which could turn into protests against the government; and taking wounded activists who need treatment away from hospital wards.Activists describe doctors and nurses abusing bleeding, helpless protesters, especially at state-run medical centers.By tradition, many doctors are Alawites, members of the same minority Muslim sect as the Assad family, explained an Alawite sympathetic to the protest movement.Taken by a doctor friend to a Damascus hospital recently to observe the abuses, the man said he saw a doctor slap a wounded patient. Hospital personnel told the man that medical ethics did not oblige them to treat traitors, he said.In a report released in July, Amnesty International describes similar abuses by medical workers. The report cites a case in which male and female nurses in the town of Talkalakh beat an injured 21-year-old activist, stitched his wounds without administering painkiller, then beat him again on his wounds.Medical care for injured demonstrators is increasingly being driven underground to makeshift clinics in homes or mosques. Pharmacists who sell equipment for blood transfusions or tetanus vaccine for treating bullet wounds have been arrested, Tarif saidEarly in the uprising, Tarif said, he watched in the Damascus suburb of Duma as security forces and protesters scrambled to pull wounded people out of one another's grasp. Wounded are routinely "taken, kidnapped," from hospitals, he said."There is clear evidence that the regime is using a specific strategy of attacking injured, attacking hospitals, kidnapping bodies, and preventing bodies from being buried with dignity," said Tarif, who is making a documentary about medical abuses in the early months of the protests.On Friday, the Local Coordinating Committees opposition coalition reported clashes over bodies and the injured outside hospitals in the Damascus suburbs of Kafarbatna and Arbaeen, after government forces opened fire on protests that broke out nationwide after Friday prayers.In Arbaeen, activists and family members rushed 15 wounded protesters, some unconscious, to a private hospital, said Fady, who said he accompanied the crowd. Opposition supporters generally regard private hospitals as more neutral than those run by the government."The hospital was surrounded with security forces, who were shooting at everyone to keep the dead and injured from entering the hospital," Fady said.Members of the Syrian army's 4th division came to the hospital and seized wounded protesters, Fady said. Security forces arrived separately in ambulances and took away the dead, he said.Syria's brutal crackdown has failed to quell the uprising. Many of the protest leaders are adamant that their movement will remain nonviolent despite what the United Nations says is more than 2,200 civilian deaths.Under the slogan "Death Before Indignity," demonstrators gathered by the thousands Friday in cities across Syria. But the centers of Damascus and Aleppo,the two main cities and critical bastions of support for Assad, remained largely quiet.Friday also saw the European Union approve tough new sanctions that analysts say are likely to significantly increase the financial pressure on Assad's government. The EU measure includes a ban on imports of Syrian oil to Europe, cutting off the market to which Assad's government channels 95% of Syria's crude. Oil accounts for about one-third of the regime's revenue.The United States imposed oil-import and financial sanctions last month after Assad's government ignored repeated U.S. demands that it stop the armed assaults on civilians. |||||Summary:

answer:The leader of a group named International Committee of the Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger, is going to a city called Damascus to talk with President Bashar Assad about taking care of people who are hurt or sick in their country. They will discuss how to help the hurt people in areas where there are problems happening. People in Syria are protesting against the ruler, President Bashar Assad, but sometimes, they are getting hurt and even killed during these protests. The government and security forces in Syria are trying to stop the protests and sometimes, they take the hurt or dead people from the hospitals. This makes it very hard for people to get proper medical care when they need it. Some people are scared to go to the hospital because they might be hurt more or taken away by security forces. To help the hurt people, some kind-hearted folks have started small clinics in their houses or mosques. Other people who try to help, like pharmacists, are sometimes arrested. A group named Amnesty International has shared stories of bad things happening to hurt people in the hospitals. They said some hospital workers have hit and hurt the patients instead of healing them. The protesters are still going on, even though they know it could be dangerous. The United States and European Union are trying to put pressure on Assad's government to stop hurting people and make things better in the country.

question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. IndividualswithsurnameRATHJEN What's a sentence that uses these characters?

answer:These characters spell "Rathjen" which is a last name. So here's a sentence: "Little Timmy Rathjen went to the park to play with his friends."

question:You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps. Generate a short summary this sentence: zhang xin , founder of the `` commune by the great wall '' , here tuesday received the mont blanc award for arts sponsorship . Summary:

answer:Zhang Xin, founder of "Commune by the Great Wall," received the Mont Blanc Award for arts sponsorship on Tuesday.

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