Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch v1.c19.41

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³ It is not easy to say how late or to what extent Pali was used in India. The Milinda-Pañha (or at least books ii. and iii.) was probably composed in North Western India about the time of our era. Dharmapâla wrote his commentaries (c. 500 A.D.) in the extreme south, probably at Conjeevaram. Pali inscriptions of the second or third century A.D. have been discovered at Sarnath but contain mistakes which show that the engraver did not understand the language (Epig. Ind. 1908, p. 391). Bendall found Pali mss. in Nepal, J.R.A.S. 1899, p. 422.