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Parent topics
Indo-European languages: A group of several hundred languages, including the majority of languages spoken in Europe, the Plateau of Iran and the subcontinent of India, that share a considerable common vocabulary and linguistic features. [e]
Subtopics
Pali Canon: the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism [e]; see especially this article's section on Language- Pali Text Society: A registered charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1881 to foster and promote the study of Pali texts. [e]
Early grammarians for Pali
- Aggavaṃsa: Add brief definition or description
- Kaccāyana: Add brief definition or description
- Moggallāna: Composer of an early grammer for Pali that was written in Sri Lanka, sometime during the reign of Parakramabahu (1142-1186)[1]. [e]
- Sanskrit: A family of ancient languages that were spoken on the Indian Subcontinent. [e]
- Magadha: Ancient kingdom of India, in what is now west-central Bihar state in northeastern India; nucleus of several larger kingdoms between the 6th century BCE and the 8th century CE. [e]
Footnotes
- ↑ Moggallāna-Vyākarana, the masterpiece of Pali Grammar, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka New Series, Vol. 40 (1995), pp. 155-162 (8 pages)