The Mauryan Polity c11.s3.t4.12
The Mauryan Polity c11.s3.t4.12
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c11.s3.t4.12
2. If the tradition has any basis the original canon must have been in Māgadhī, the vernacular of Aśoka’s capital. What we have on the other hand is the Ceylonese Pāli canon which was reduced to writing some centuries after Aśoka. Whether the rendering in Pāli was from the original Māgadhī we cannot say for certain.