Dear all,
As I knew, the Sanskrit language is considered as the influence one of Pāḷi. I have 2 questions:
1. What do we base on to define the relation as "Sanskrit affects Pāḷi" not "Pāḷi affects Sanskrit"? Cause I always when people try to explain some difficult Pāḷi words compounds, they all extract from Sanskrit. Furthermore, is it a must to learn Sanskrit for studying Pāḷi?
2. I knew that in history, there were some encounters between the community of Sanskrit using and that of Pāḷi. So, that's logical possibility that Pāḷi gained some importing factors from Sanskrit. But what makes me curious is that: is there any "clearly evidence" for that. For example: is there any historical document showing a Bhikkhu namely X declaring "I have learnt Sanskrit from the master Y, I feel interesting in it and I tried to apply it to Pāḷi using"... At least in scientific principle, if we do not have evidence for that link, it's still just a hypothesis - although a very possible hypothesis
Sincerely yours,
Huynh Trong Khanh