Paiśācī & Pali Paiśācī is a largely unattested literary language of classical India that is mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. Bhūtabhāṣa..( another name of Paiśācī ) an epithet which can be interpreted either as a dead language as a language spoken by the dead (i.e., ghouls/ghosts), the former interpretation being more realistic and the latter being more fanciful. Paiśācī was the ancient name for Pāli. Theravada Buddhism Many Theravada sources refer to the Pāli language as language of Magada. The Buddha taught in Magadha, but the four most important places in his life are all outside of it. It is likely that he taught in several closely related dialects of Middle Indo-Aryan, which had a high degree of mutual intelligibility. There is no attested dialect of Middle Indo-Aryan with all the features of Pāli. Similarities to the Western inscription may be misleading, because the inscription suggests that the Ashokan scribe may not have translated the material he received from Magadha into the vernacular of the people there. Pāli historical chronicles, medical texts, and inscriptions is also of great historical importance. The great centers of Pāli learning remain in the Theravada nations of Southeast Asia: Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
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