A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.39
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.39
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§ 3. The next step in the reduction of the numerous Sanskrit tenses to a more manageable compass is seen in Pali, originally an Indian Prakrit, but which became the sacred language of the Buddhists of Ceylon, having been carried thither in the middle of the third century¹ before Christ, by Mahendra, son of King Açoka, and spread thence to Burma and Siam.