I think it is Vedic Sanskrit that is called Early
Indo-Aryan while Classical post Panini Sankrit is
posterior to prakrits - among which Pâli - of which it
is a systematisation.

J.Huynen

--- lighthisertim <lighthisertim@...> wrote:

> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, George Bedell
> <gdbedell@...> wrote: Still, it is
> overwhelmingly clear from comparing Sanskrit and
> Pali, on phonological, morphological or
> syntactic grounds, that Sanskrit represents a
> historically prior stage of Indo-Aryan to Pali.
> This is why in the accepted view Sanskrit is termed
> 'early Indo-Aryan' and Pali 'middle
> Indo-Aryan'.
>
> Hello,
>
> Oberlies, Thomas. “Middle Indo-Aryan and (the)
> Vedic (Dialects) (Miscellanea Palica VII).”
> Historische Sprachforschung 112 (1999): 39â€"57.
>
> This may be of some interest to you.
>
> tl
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