Venerable,

My apologies, I thought I had answered this question.

Anyway, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) is the name given by Fransklin Edgerton to a
Middle Indic Language (to which Pali belong) used to record some early Buddhist
teachings.

Pali, as scholars now know, is the product of the fusion of a number of dialect and
is a literary language (Kunstsprache) specially composed and used during the 1st
Council to record the various teachings of the Buddha passed down to the early
disciples.

Another such language is a kind of popular or "vulgate" Sanskrit used by the
Buddhist. It is not as complicated as the Vedic or Classical Sanskrit. For more
details, please see Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary and Grammar vol. 1
p 1 ff.

P.

"Ven. KUMARA Bhikkhu" wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piya Tan <libris@...>
> > Prof. Sumanapala (U of Kelaniya) has started with his Basic Abhidhamma
> class last
> > week. Next month (October) he will be teaching Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
> which I have
> > long waited for. All this will be conducted at the Buddhist Library,
> Singapore.
>
> What, if I may ask, is "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit"?
>
> metta,
> Ven K
>
>
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