Pali and Prakrit
Narayana Vasudeva Tungara has written: 'Marathi guide to C.V. Joshi's Manual of Pali' -- subject(s): Pali language, Grammar, Readers 'Palisaddarupavali' -- subject(s): Prakrit languages, Inflection
Sanskrit. The scholars have dated the existance near about 4th Century BC. It was the time when vedic Sanskrit was predominant along with Pali-prakrit. Though use of pali-prakrit is dated somewhere around 2-3rd century BC(according scriptures from the times of king Ashoka), Chanakya, who must have studied in vedic sanskrit language.. So, i think it must be written in vedic sanskrit.
Sanskrit is the oldest language and literature of the world. Prakrit was the deformed version of pure classical Sanskrit and was spoken language of the then common people. Later on Prakrit transformed as Pali and then into several forms as Maagadhi, Maithili, Bhojpuri...etc./etc....finally as Hindi.
Yes, it is one of Indo-European family, and has an even stronger root in Sanskrit than Hindi. It traces its root back to Prakrit, which was adopted as the royal language of court by King Ashoka, thereby replacing Sanskrit. The inscription of Ashoka are all in Prakrit. The Prakrit later gave birth to Pali in the middle age, from which early Bengali is derived. It was then transformed for several years and got spread into several dialects.
The mother tongue of Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is believed to be Magadhi Prakrit, an ancient Indian language spoken in the region of present-day Bihar, India. This language was used in the teachings and discourses that he delivered to his followers. Later, these teachings were recorded in Pali, which is closely related to Magadhi. Pali became the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.
Sanskrit is similar to other Indo-European languages such as Latin, Greek, and Old Persian in terms of its grammatical structure, vocabulary, and phonetics. It also shares similarities with other classical Indian languages like Pali and Prakrit.
The population of Pali district is 2,038,533.
Pali Furniture was created in 1919.
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Pali Text Society was created in 1881.
Pali Blues - PDL - was created in 2011.