At 12:19 AM 7/25/01 -0400, you wrote:

>I would recommend a tablespoon of salt and a dose of Nagarjuna.<><><><><
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>Nagarjuna is no more of an expert in Pali then myself...
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>how can you make such an OBTUSE remark which is unsupported?

I'm just an obtuse kinda guy, but you are not winning friends and
influencing people with your approach.

What you have presented is interesting, but not all that novel.

Let us put it this way: I am here for a discussion of Pali, an interesting
rich language. I appreciate that you shared the information about this
book, but you are making no points here with your true believer act. While
I may disagree with the venerable author's conclusions and much of his
argumentation as has been presented in the stuff you uploaded for us, I
don't think this is the place to dissect the book. As for Nagarjuna, he was
obviously a master of Sanskrit, and of the extant prakrits, Pali is not
that far removed.

Be that as it may, I shall obtusely blunder on, ignoring any further
discussion of this subject.