--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "hjor9" <hjor9@...> wrote:

(snip)
> Some sources: Oberlies, Thomas. 2001. "Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the
Theravada Tipitika." Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (pages 1-2 talk about the Girnar edict and
Pali).

Professor Oberlies also has an excellent essay entitled `Asokan Prakrit and Pali'. This is in
a book called "The Indo-Aryan languages".

hth,

tl

The Indo-Aryan languages / edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain. London; New
York: Routledge, 2003.