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| | Pāli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It is most famous as the Liturgical language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pāli Canon or in Pāli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. | | | Although Sanskrit was said, in brahmanical tradition, to be the unchanging language spoken by the gods, in which each word had an inherent significance, this view of language was not shared in the early Buddhist tradition, in which words were only conventional and mutable signs. | | | However it was ultimately supplanted by Sanskrit as a literary and religious language following the formulation of Classical Sanskrit by the scholar Panini in India. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_language
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| | Indo-Aryan languages - Open Encyclopedia |
| | The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas. | | | However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits. | | | This Indo-Aryan language is a combination of Persian and Arabic in its vocabulary with the grammar of the local dialects. |
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http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Indo-Aryan_languages
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| | Buddhist Studies: Pali |
| | An Indian language in which the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of the Theravada school of Buddhism is written. | | | Scholars are divided on whether Pali was actually the language of Magadhi or that it was spoken by the Buddha. | | | K.R. Norman, "The language in which the Buddha taught" in Buddhism and Jainism, Part 1 edited by H.C. Das, (et al) 1976. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd58.htm
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| | Buddhism Frequently Asked Questions |
| | Suddha Magadhi was the pure form of the language and was the form used by the Buddha. | | | Pali is the language in which the original teachings of Buddhism have been preserved over the centuries. | | | Pali was originally known as Magadhi, the language used in Magadha, a district in Central India, during the time of the Buddha (sixth century BC). |
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http://www.ohbliss.org/en/buddhism_faq.html
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| | Learn Pali... |
| | It was the language current in the land of Magadha during the time of the Buddha. | | | From the introduction: This book is chiefly intended for those who study the Buddhist teachings through the medium of the English language, but wish to familiarize themselves with some of the original Pali terms of doctrinal import. | | | From the Preface: The word Pali means "the Text", though it has now come to be the name of a language. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/pali.html
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| | Chapter PALAVERAM <i>to</i> PALI of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary |
| | The name of the sacred language of the Southern Buddhists, in fact, according to their apparently well-founded tradition Magadhi, the dialect of what we now call South Bahar, in which Sakya Muni discoursed. | | | It has been carried, as the sacred language, to all the Indo-Chinese countries which have derived their religion from India through Ceylon. | | | Pali-bhasha is then ‘the language of the Sacred Texts,’ i.e. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/260/1283/20148/2.html
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| | BANGLAPEDIA: Prakrit |
| | Paisachi was considered by a school of thought to be the language of the demons and its main centre was the north-western region of India. | | | Prakrit (Prakrta) Middle Indo-Aryan language which developed from sanskrit but is distinguished from it as being the spoken language of the common people. | | | Others suggest that prakrti means 'basis' and that the term suggests that the language is derived from the basis, that is, Sanskrit. |
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http://banglapedia.org/HT/P_0254.HTM
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| | Magadhi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An earlier form of Magadhi is believed to be the language spoken by The Buddha, and Magadhi may have been the language of ancient kingdom of Magadha, after which the Magadh area is named. | | | Many of the texts of the Jain religion are written in old Magadhi. | | | The Magadhi language (also known as Magahi) is a language spoken in India. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadhi_language
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| | News at Tipitaka Network |
| | For centuries, the Theravada assumed that Pali was the language spoken by the Buddha in his teachings, and was therefore synonymous with Magadhi, the language of the Northern Indian kingdom of Magadha where the Buddha lived and taught. | | | The Tripitaka, preserved perhaps in the original language of the Buddha (an Eastern North Indian tongue), encountered the Pali language at some point in history- most likely during the period when Pali was widely present in Northern India- and was recorded in that language. | | | It is unknown when Pali ceased to be a cradle language, and became relegated to the religious realm. |
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http://www.tipitaka.net/community/news.php?page=051012d
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| | Hindi at Assureview |
| | It is an prakrit languages of the Middle Ages, and indirectly, from Sanskrit. | | | Linguists think of Hindi and Urdu as the same language, the difference being that Hindi is written in Devanagari (Devanāgarī) and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu is written in the Persian alphabet and draws on Persian and Arabic language. | | | Due to Muslim influence in Northern India, a large number of Persian language, Arabic language and Turkish language words were adopted, which eventually resulted in the formation of Urdu. |
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http://www.assureview.com/music-download/hindi.html
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| | Bangladesh - Language |
| | The UNESCO has declared 21st February as The International Mother Language Day to be observed globally in recognition of the sacrifices of the Bangla language martyrs who laid their lives for establishing the rightful place of Bangla. | | | In its resolution the UNESCO said-' 21st February be proclaimed International Mother Language Day throughout the world to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this very day in 1952’. | | | Bangla's direct ancestor is a form of Magadhi Prakrit or Middle Indo-Aryan which descended from Sanskrit or Old Indo-Aryan. |
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http://www.bangla2000.com/Bangladesh/language.shtm
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| | Dead Sanskrit Was Always Dead [ The Sanskrit Language served merely as a Liturgical Language and was Never in Use by ... |
| | Similarly, the Brahmins of India realised that the Vedic and Vaishnava scriptures were in a variety of Old Indo-Aryan languages with the rise of the grave threats Jainism and Buddhism, both of which had a single standard theological language (Ardhamagadhi and Magadhi, respectively). | | | Dead Sanskrit Was Always Dead [ The Sanskrit Language served merely as a Liturgical Language and was Never in Use by the Masses of the Population. | | | The Brahmins have invented a ludicrous theory, as per which all languages in the world are derived from Sanskrit. |
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http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/dalitism/dal000/dead_san.html
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| | Marathi Language |
| | All of the Indo-Aryan languages originated from Sanskrit. | | | As such the spoken language changes from Mumbai (Bombay) to PuNe to Marathawada to Khandesh to Vidarbha, as one travels from one region of Maharashtra to another. | | | Three Prakrit languages, simpler in structure, emerged from Sanskrit. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~marathi/marathi.html
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| | Literature - Pali |
| | The Theravada tradition, however, mentions the language as Magadhi and claims that it was the actual speech of the Buddha. | | | The word 'Pali' primarily signifies 'Text' or 'sacred texts' or the text of the Buddhist canon' as opposed to the connentaries, but gradually it bacame the name of the language in which the canon (Tripitika) of the Theravada Buddhism and the ancillary texts were written. | | | It is, however, certain that the Pali Tipitika grew out of this oral tradition to be modified during the next two centuries in which form it was finally written down in the literary Pali language in the Fourth Council. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/radha/rpub003.htm
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| | About Bihari Christians |
| | A portion of the Bible was translated into the Magadhi language, spoken by some Bihari Muslims, in 1826, but it is now out of print. | | | The New Testament is available on cassette in both the Hindi and Urdu languages. | | | Even fewer Christians speak Urdu, the religious and daily-life language of many Muslims, including the Bihari. |
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http://www.biharimuslims.com/page3.html
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| | index_bce_299_200 |
| | His main language is Magadhi Prakrit, though on some northwestern pillars he uses Aramaic (the official language of the Persian empire) and even Greek. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routes/bce_299_200/index_bce_299_200.html
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| | Welcome to GSB Konkani |
| | The coastal Maharashtra to the north of Goa, consisting of Ratnagiri, Malwan etc. is called "Konkanpatti" even to-day and the people here as well as in Goa and Uttar Kannada consisting of Karwar, Kumta and Honavar speak Konkani irrespective of their caste, creed or community. | | | In this way our mother-tongue Konkani could attain a glorious position and let us hope certainly she will. | | | Thus when they reached Goa, it appears along with Sanskrit they had taken Konkani also. |
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http://www.gsbkonkani.net/konkani.htm
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| | Bishnupriya Manipuri Language: source and origin |
| | Suniti kumar Chatterjee, a recognized Bangle phonetician, listed the BPM language to be a dialect of Bengali whereas, Dr. Maheswer Neog claimed it as a dialect of Assamese. | | | The evidence is also found in distinctly in this regard from a thorough study of Bishnupriya Manipuri language which is in close proximity with the Sauraseni-Maharastri Prakrit and also contains pure Vedic or Sanskrit words. | | | W.Shaw and Raj Mohan Nath, two eminent scholars are of the view that " Bishnupriya " with its Devanagai script had been the court language of Manipur and was replaced by king Khagenba. |
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http://www.manipuri.freeservers.com/bpm.html
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| | Kashmiri language resources |
| | It is analytic like the modern languages of Sanskritic stock and synthetic like the old Indo... | | | Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sanskrit) Sinhala : Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link language) Slovak Slovakia part of Serbia and Montenegro Vojvodina (with... | | | Kashmiri Khmer Korean Kurdish Ladino Lao Lepcha Limbu Malay Malayalam Marathi Mongolian Moplah Non-Slavic Languages (in Cyrillic Script) Oriya Ottoman Turkish Pali Panjabi Persian Pushto Russian Sanskrit... |
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http://www.mongabay.com/indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kashmiri.html
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| | Must we squabble about the names? |
| | It is very true that the Buddha who was preaching in the Ardha Magadhi Prakrit Language, which was the language of the masses, had forbidden to preach in Sanskrit, the language of the Brahmins. | | | The Buddha's preachings were preserved in Pali and were called "Dhamma". | | | Later the language itself came to be called Pali. |
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http://www.ambedkar.org/jamanadas/Mustwe.htm
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| | PatnaDaily.Com - Readers Write |
| | Also Southerners who hate Hindi should know that it was UP born, Sanskrit speaking brother of Rishi Vashista, sage Agastya, who is given credit for the Agattiyam, the first treatise on Tamil grammar and therefore modern Tamil. | | | The rest of India better just learn to live with the fact that all languages are somehow derived from UP and Bihar. | | | In fact, most of these languages are derived originally from Magadhi, the language of the Magadhan empire and was probably due to the Mauryan empire. |
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http://www.patnadaily.com/readerswrite/2003/singh.html
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| | Roots of the Bengali language |
| | In addition, Bengali absorbed from the Farsi, Turkic and Arabic languages under the muslim rulers and English under the British. | | | (A slightly different view claims that the origins of Punjabi, Hindi, and Rajasthani actually share a distinct origin than the rest of the indo-aryan languages.) | | | Bengali is a language of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages. |
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http://tanmoy.tripod.com/bengal/language.html
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| | "Hardly Anyone in Bihar speaks Hindi" |
| | Magahi is in turn the direct descendant of Pali or Magadhi, the language of the Buddha. | | | Falsely including these ancient languages as `Hindi' is the prime means whereby Hindi Imperialists fraudulently inflate their numbers. | | | Besides, there is a column for other two languages spoken by the family. |
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http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/hindia/hin000/hind0018.html
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| | Prakrit Definition / Prakrit Research |
| | Prakrit (Sanskrit prakrta: "natural, usual, vulgar") refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient IndiaThe Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, and one of only two countries in the world with a population of over one billion. | | | (any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD) | | | The Prakrits were vernacularsThe vernacular is the native language of a country or locality. |
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http://www.elresearch.com/Prakrit
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| | WhatisTheravadaBuddhism |
| | The language of the Theravada canonical texts is Pali, a relative of Magadhi, a language probably spoken in central India during the Buddha's time. | | | Many students of Theravada find that learning the Pali language -- even just a little bit here and there -- greatly deepens their understanding of the path of practice. | | | The wisdom the Canon contains has nevertheless served for centuries as an indispensable guide for millions of followers in their quest for Awakening. |
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http://www.quangduc.com/English/WhatisTheravadaBuddhism.html
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| | Bangla Language and Script |
| | In this language difference between spoken and written style is a known fact to scholars. | | | There is no document of Magadhi Apabhramsa except a small inscription. | | | The inadequacy of written documents of immediate Pre-Bengali period is one of the most important limi-tations to find out the gradual change from Apabhramsa, Avahattha to the historic period of Bengali (16th century AD). |
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http://www.isical.ac.in/~rc_bangla/bangla.html
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| | rocksea » India; Unity in Diversity |
| | In Sanskrit "Namas" means, "bow, obeisance, reverential salutation." It comes from the root Nam, which carries meanings of bending, bowing, humbly submitting and becoming silent. | | | In simple language, namaste is "a hello with a respect". | | | Tags: unity in diversity, india, namaste, statistics, languages, flag |
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http://www.rock-sea.net/india-unity-in-diversity
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| | Sadhu! - Web Links |
| | This work explores the history and the scale of use of Sanskrit, and concludes that Sanskrit was never spoken in India, and was restricted to the Brahmins. | | | Jain sacred books, composed in Ardha-Magadhi language, a close relative of Pali. | | | Comprehensive resources: historical developments, manuscripts, calligraphy, classical languages and texts. |
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http://www.dhamma.ru/sadhu/modules/mylinks/viewcat.php?cid=26&orderby=hitsA
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| | Dwarkadhish.org ::: Contributors ::: |
| | M.A. with Sanskrit and Ardha Magadhi language from Bombay University | | | PhD in Vedanta Sub: the philosophy of Shankaracharya Sagun and Nirgun Brahma.. |
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http://www.gurjari.net/dwarkadhish/contributors/dr.chandarana.htm
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| | Re: Definitive dates |
| | Stevenson, who has written the translation of The Kalpa Sutra and Nav Tatva from Magadhi language, also consents with this. | | | Prinsep in his Useful Tables, part II, p.33 says Mahavir died in 569 B.C. and Rev. J. |
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http://www.dd-b.net/~raphael/jain-list/msg01591.html
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| | Gautama Buddha |
| | Passed down by oral tradition, the holy Tipitaka was first written roughly a hundred years after his death in the Magadhi (Pali) language spoken by Gautama. | | | Under the full moon month of May was born in Lumbini (now modern day Nepal) an infant to the Kshatriya caste of warrior-aristocrats. |
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http://www.findword.org/ga/gautama-buddha.html
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| | What Gotama Buddha Said |
| | The most complete early texts we have are in Paali [a fairly new term, ~ 120 years old, for an old Indian language called Magadhi] and Chinese. | | | You would value the early texts from any source, but accept that they might be corrupted. |
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http://groups.msn.com/WhatGotamaBuddhaSaid
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| | Magahi (Also known as: Magadhi, Magaya, Maghai, Maghaya, Maghori, Magi, Magodhi, Bihari, Megahi) | | | Alternative Names: Magadhi, Magaya, Maghai, Maghaya, Maghori, Magi, Magodhi, Bihari, Megahi | | | Share your time, enthusiasm and skills to make a difference on our Planet! |
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http://www.nativeplanet.org/indigenous/ethnicdiversity/asia/india/indigenous_data_india_magahi.shtml
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