Re: kaccaayanappakara.na

From: robert kirkpatrick
Message: 641
Date: 2003-05-22


--- Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> wrote:
  I have long considred
> the Pali grammars
> to be modelled on the earlier Sanskrit ones. But if
> is true that
> Kaccayana's grammar (at least at least in the case
> of the short
> suttas) originated much earlier with the great
> Kaccayana then we might
> have to consider that it might be the other around
> with some of the
> Sanskrit grammars being influenced by Kaccaayana's.
>
> ___________
I think this is possible Jim.
Sanskrit Scholars believe sankrit older than Pali
-This is not so but the belief distorts aspects of
such studies.
Robert
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