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Excerpt from A Compendious Pali Grammar: With a Copious Vocabulary in the Same Language
The Pah' has undoubtedly a high claim to the atten, tion of the literary world. It has long been a contested point whether-the qi or Sansgrit be the more ancient, language of India it is certain, that Bali was the pepu lar dialect of the native country of Buddha, namely Afa gadha, before the powerful sect founded by him, was ex'. Pelled from the continent of India, an event prior to the Christian 43m. Its literature contains a considerar ble number of volumes both in Prose and verse which, whatever may be their merits in gther respects, form the only authentic depository of Buddhuism, and the learning in general of Ceylon, and the whole of India beyond tbe'ganges, to which the Pali now is and has been for many centuries, vibat Sanskrit is in India Pru.
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