Very interesting: it is a mixture of Pali & Sanskrit. I think it is Sinhala Pali or Pali Sinhala. Is there a technical name fot this usage?
In Thailand too there is a heavy presence of Pali in classical poetry.
Piya
--- gurusinha sena <
gurusinhas@...> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Ong
>
> It is a pali verse, written in Sinhalese. This is the tramslation
> to Roman characters. m = m dot below
>
> Ye bhaahmano vedagu sabbha dhamme
> Te me namo teva mam paalayantu
> Namatthu Buddhaanam namatthu bodhiyaa
> Namo vimuktaanam namo vimuktiyaa
>
>
>
>
> Ong Yong Peng <pali.smith@...> wrote: Dear friends,
>
> I was asked by a friend to translate into English an unknown passage
>
> in a script, which I think is South-Asian. I was told it is a Pali
> verse.
>
> The passage is available online:
> http://www.tipitaka.net/unknown.bmp
>
> I would appreciate if anyone can help, either to translate the
> passage
> in English, or transliterate it into Roman Velthuis characters.
> Thank
> you.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
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