Dear D.C.,
Pāli is certainly not a word coined by PTSD as it is also dealt with in the
Saddanīti, a 12th century text on Pali grammar. There is an excellent
treatment under the root PAL (1594 pāla rakkhaṇe) at Sadd II 562 which I
reproduce below from the CST4 version:
<< Pāla rakkhaṇe. ‘‘Rakkhaṇaṃ, tāṇaṃ, gopanaṃ, avanaṃ, pālanaṃ, rakkhā,
rakkhaṇā, gutti’’ iccete pariyāyā. Pāleti, pālayati. Pālako, buddhapālo.
Ambapālī gaṇikā. Samo bhavatu pālinā. Pālito, pālanaṃ, pāḷi.
Ettha pāḷīti atthaṃ pāletīti pāḷi, lassa ḷattaṃ. Atha vā antodakaṃ
rakkhaṇaṭṭhena mahato taḷākassa thirā mahatīti pāḷi viyāti pāḷi,
pariyattidhammo. Aparo nayo pakaṭṭhānaṃ ukkaṭṭhānaṃ sīlādiatthānaṃ bodhanato
sabhāvaniruttibhāvato buddhādīhi bhāsitattā ca pakaṭṭhānaṃ
vacanappabandhānaṃ āḷīti pāḷi.
Pāḷisaddo pāḷidhamme, taḷākapāḷiyampi ca;
Dissate pantiyañceva, iti ñeyyaṃ vijānatā.
Ayañhi ‘‘pāḷiyā atthamupaparikkhantī’’tiādīsu pariyattidhammasaṅkhāte
pāḷidhamme dissati. ‘‘Mahato taḷākassa pāḷī’’tiādīsu taḷākapāḷiyaṃ. ‘‘Pāḷiyā
nisīdiṃsū’’tiādīsu pantiyaṃ, paṭipāṭiyā nisīdiṃsūti attho. Imasmiṃ panatthe
dhātuyā kiccaṃ natthi. Pāṭipadiko hi pantivācako pāḷisaddo. >>
This is a good starting point for a working definition of "pāḷi" with 3
meanings and 2 derivations. I know that pāḷi in the second sense is found in
the Vinayaptṭaka.
Best wishes,
Jim
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Subject: Re: [palistudy] Paali
The problem with discussions of the language the Buddha spoke is that
people do not define their terms.[L.S. Cousins]
I certainly agree with this remark. It was taught to me in my GCE, OL
science classes. Later it was a fundamental guideline for writing as an
electrical engineer.
In accordance with that I propose that Pali be defined as follows:
Pali corpus: the texts published by the Pali Text Society.
Pali Lexicon: the vocabulary given in the PTS Dictionary by Rhys Davids and
William Stede.
Remark: Pali is a word coined by PTSD. There is a headword there, Pāli
(Pāḷi), which says
"It is the literary language of the early Buddhists, closely related to
Māgadhī."
From the above it follows that the language the Buddha spoke has nothing to
do with Pali. [Pali is a creation of Rhys Davids and William Stede.].
D.C.