If Pali was the language of the Buddha we could conclude that the majority
of the early Buddhists would have used this language.
It is therefore interesting to note that inscriptions in Pali are extremely
rare in both India and early Sri Lanka, according to Richard Salomon in
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit,
and the other Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Bankei
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