Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Original Language

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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Aspects of Buddhist Sanskrit
Comments
K.N. Mishra
Thanking Ven. N. Samten, who kindly consented earlier to read out the paper in absentia. I request the scholars to present their responses on this paper by Prof. Bronkhorst.
S.K. Pathak
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I think this paper has given a new dimension to our discussion. The learned author has endeavoured to press before us two important points. Outlook of each and every religion to accept certain way of presentation or communication, belong to each religious society, that is one point. In the second part he has dealt the thing very interestingly with reference to Vakyapadiya and other comments. How these things have been taken into consideration in respect of the language used by the Buddhists who do not claim themselves that this is the only language in which the Buddha's teachings can be declared? These are two points he has given. I think first point requires no much discussion that is a general tendency. Christians say that Hebrew and Jains say that Ardhamagadhi and Buddhists say that Magadhi is the original language of the teachings of the Lord. But the second part of the discussion, I think, is very interesting. I just want to be aquainted with the point he has raised. There is a passage in Candrakirti's commentary on Aryadeva's Catuḥsataka, which can throw further light on our question. The commentary survives only in Tibetan translation, which has recently been edited and studied and translated into English by Tom-J.F. Candrakirti cites under the karikā no 278, of the Catuhsataka which is preserved in original form in Samadhirajasutra as well as in the Candrakirti's own Prasannapada commentary. There is cited the
nivrttidharmana na asti dharmah ye neha asti na te jātu asti/ astiti-nāstīti ca kalpanavatām