Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch v1.c19.40

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² Pali means primarily a line or row and then a text as distinguished from the commentary. Thus Pâlimattam means the text without the commentary and Palibhâsâ is the language of the text or what we call Pali. See Pali and Sanskrit, R. O. Franke, 1902. Windisch, “Ueber den sprachlichen Character des Pali,” in Actes du XIVme Congrès des Orientalistes, 1905. Grierson, “Home of Pali” in Bhandarkar Commemorative Essays, 1917.