--- Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...> skrev:

> Dear Johan,
>
> There is a small joke I often tell my friends: if
> you find any Latin
> translation in the
> Pali translations don't ask about it as it is about
> something unspeakable,
> esp to
> the Victorian scholars of yesteryears.

I think the first Western translation from Pali was
Fausböll's version of the Dhammapada - into Latin.

Probably the first and last of its kind, however. When
the same scholar translated the Suttanipata, he did it
into English.

Gunnar

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