Dear Piya,

very interesting.

since, like you say that age has gone, it wud be lovely if u put up a whole
compilation of such telling latin stories in pali along with their latin and
english translations.

metta
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On 1/21/08, Gunnar Gällmo <gunnargallmo@...> wrote:
>
> --- Piya Tan <dharmafarer@... <dharmafarer%40gmail.com>> 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
>
> http://metrobloggen.se/esperanto
>
>
>
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