Dear Robert and Lennart

I guess it depends on the definition of the word "pali" - if you define Pali
as the muulabhaasaa then whatever language evolves must be pali - but just
not Pali as we know it (to borrow a useful phrase)

Two quick questions for Robert, though: what are the textual sources for
this cyclic big-bang cosmology (apart from modern physics of course)? and
your reference to Lord Buddha raises the question of where the other Buddhas
fit into this picture.

Robert Didham

>From: "Lennart Lopin" <lenni_lop@...>
>Reply-To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
>To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: Pali - Original Language.....
>Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:28:20 +0200
>
>Dear Robert,
>
>Thats an interesting point. Could you explain it a bit further? How is the
>Pali Language connected with a new cycle? In case of this "universe" i
>could
>follow, as many powerful devas achieved their state because of the punna
>gathered at Lord Buddha's time. But how could Pali continue to be the
>muulabhaasaa in other aeons thereafter ?
>
>Lennart
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "robertkirkpatrick.rm" <robertkirkpatrick@...>
>To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:12 PM
>Subject: [Pali] Re: Pali - Original Language.....
>
>
> > ---
> > It makes sense to me that it is, Rahula. Everytime the universe is
> > destroyed and a new universe occurs it is said that pali is the first
> > language to appear.
> > Robert
> > In Pali@..., "rahula_80" <rahula_80@...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I found this information on another list.
> > >
> > > The claim made by Visuddhimagga is too much. It claimed that Pali
> > is
> > > the original language of all beings(sabba-sattaanam
> > muulabhaasaa)!!!!
> > >
> > > Visuddhimagga:
> > >
> > > tad-abhilaape tassa bhaasane udiira.ne ta.m bhaasita.m
> > > lapita.m udiirita.m sutvaa va: aya.m sabhaavanirutti, aya.m
> > > na sabhaavaniruttii ti eva.m tassaa dhammaniruttisajjitaaya
> > > sabhaavaniruttiyaa maagadhikaaya sabbasattaana.m
> > muulabhaasaaya
> > > pabhedagata.m Jaa.na.m niruttipatisambhidaa. (PTS,
> > > 1921/1975: 441-442; PTS, Path of Purity, 1923/1975)
> > >
> > > How would Buddhist interpret this piece of imformation?
> > >
> > > Rahula
> >
> >
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