A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.92

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native of Ujjayin, and that the language which he carried to Ceylon was the ordinary vernacular of his own province.¹ This dialect was not very different from that of Magadha, and Mahendra may have slightly altered the Mâgadhi sayings of the great master, by his Ujjayini pronunciation, while retaining the name Mâgadhi out of deference to the sacred associations which clustered round the birthplace of Buddha.