Hello Keren,

My teachers at Liege Univ., Belgium, told me that Pali
is closer to Vedic than to classical Sankrit.

It seems to me that Pâli and Sankrit are two
concurrent attempts to "rationalize", unify and
stabilize a number of dialects that had sprung from
Vedic, the first attempt being led by Buddhist sanghas
so that monks coming from different regions of Middle
India, where the Dhamma had first spread, could
understand each other, the second (Sankrit) by the
brahmin establishment, a little like the different
dialects of English and French were unified by English
and French nobilities between XV and XVII centuries.
One could then perhaps say that Pâli and Sanskrit are
two different branches of the same Vedic stem.

With Metta

Jacques Huynen

--- keren_arbel <keren_arbel@...> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I read a post of Dmytro on Sanskrit and Pali in the
> Pali forum of
> Esangha, and I wanted to ask few questions:
> 1. It is correct to say, that Pali (as I understood
> it, is a mixture
> of dialects that are now known as Pali, the language
> of the Theravada
> canon) is actually a descendent of the Vedic
> language and not of
> Sanskrit as a lot of scholars used to say?
> 2. Does Ardha-Magadhi is a dialect of Vedic?
> 3. What than is the connection between Pali and
> Sanskrit, and is
> Sanskrit a systematic Vedic?
>
> Thanks,
> With Metta,
> Keren
>
>
>
>
>

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