They state that there is no evidence for this .
Whatever evidence is available suggests that by the start of the common era , hardly anybody other than learned monks had the capacity to understand the old Prakrit languages such as Ardhamagadhi .
They state that there is no evidence for this and whatever evidence is available suggests that by the start of the common era , hardly anybody other than learned monks had the capacity to understand the old Prakrit languages such as Ardhamagadhi .