Context: Sanskrit linguist Madhav Deshpande says that when the term "Sanskrit" arose it was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking. Knowledge of Sanskrit was a marker of social class and educational attainment in ancient India, and the language was taught mainly to members of the higher castes through the close analysis of Vyākaraṇins such as Pāṇini and Patanjali, who exhorted proper Sanskrit at all times, especially during ritual. Sanskrit, as the learned language of Ancient India, thus existed alongside the vernacular Prakrits, which were Middle Indo-Aryan languages. However, linguistic change led to an eventual loss of mutual intelligibility.

Question: In Ancient India, which vernacular languages existed alongside Sanskrit?
Answer: Prakrits

Question: The works of which two scholars were used to teach Sanskrit to the higher castes of India?
Answer: Pāṇini and Patanjali

Question: The use of Sanskrit was considered to be a marker of what in Ancient India?
Answer: social class and educational attainment

Question: What type of language were Prakrits?
Answer: Middle Indo-Aryan

Question: Which Sanskrit linguist describes Sanskrit as a "particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking?"
Answer: Madhav Deshpande

Question: What style of speech did linguist Madhav Deshpande say Sanskrit started out as?
Answer: perfected manner

Question: Of what was Sanskrit once thought to be a divider?
Answer: social class

Question: How was Sanskrit originally used?
Answer: ritual

Question: Where was Sanskrit a learned language of the high classes?
Answer: Ancient India

Question: With what did Sanskrit exist beside?
Answer: vernacular Prakrits

Question: Who said that Sanskrit was a specific language set apart?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what country did the lower class study Sanskrit?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What language exists alongside Sanskrit in modern India?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What two scholars were instrumental in teaching Sanskrit to the lower class? 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What vernacular language was used only by the upper social class in India?
Answer: Unanswerable