Old Bramhi Inscriptions In Udaygiri And Khandagiri

SR No.: 020516
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Benimadhab Barua
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 354
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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is known in this or that locality, boastfully says: This is the only correct form, and the others are incorrect.' Thus it is, O Bhikkhus, that a man becomes inclined to dogmatically adhere to the local form of a proper name, and to press the local designation too far. How is it, O Bhikkhus, that a man does not become inclined to dogmatically adhere to the local form of a proper name, and to press the local designation too far? Here, O Bhikkhus, it so happens that a utensil is known by different proper names in different localities, in some by the name of Pati, in some by the name of Patta, and so on and so forth. The inhabitant of one locality, when he is in another locality, realising that the gentlemen of the second locality conventionally use this form of the proper name to designate this object,' wisely use that particular form whereby the object is known in that particular locality without any local attachment (that is, abandoning the form whereby the object is known in his own locality). Thus it is, O Bhikkhus, that a man does not become inclined to dogmatically adhere to the local form of a proper name, and to press the local designation too far. It is for this reason that the rule is so stated as: The local form of a proper name is not to be dogmatically adhered to, the local designation is not to be pressed too far." "1
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NOTES
1. Here we have refrained from introducing a discussion as to the origin and antiquity of Pali language, reserving it for a separate monograph. But it is our decided opinion that a conclusion about the antiquity of Pali drawn from the similarity observed between it and the language of Kharavela's inscription is bound to be a dogmatism and dangerous presumption. Truman Michelson's paper on Magachisms in the Language of the Girnar, Shahbazgarhi and Mansehra Inscriptions' (American Journal of Philology, 1909, pp. 234 ff., and JAOS, 1909, I, pp. 77 ff.) will receive full attention in the proposed monograph.
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