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	Magadhi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magadhi language (also known as मगही Magahi) is a language spoken by 11,362,000 people in India.
		Magadhi is closely related to Bhojpuri and Maithili and these languages are sometimes referred to as a single language, Bihari.
		An earlier form of Magadhi, known as Magadhi Prakrit, is believed to be the language spoken by The Buddha, and the language of the ancient kingdom of Magadha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magadhi_language (263 words)

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		It is the direct descendant of the old Magadhi Prakrit (see PRAKRIT), of which the headquarters were South Bihar, or the present districts of Patna and Gaya.
		As regards s, the Magadhi Prakrit pronounced it as s, like the shin " shin." The Prakrits of the West preserved its dental sound, like that of the s in " sin." Here Bengali and Eastern Hindi exactly represent the ancient state of affairs.
		Magahi is the dialect of the country corresponding to the ancient Magadha, and may therefore be taken as the modern representative of the purest Magadhi Prakrit.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=9172&locale=en (5094 words)

	Pali
		While it is uncertain whether Pāli was ever a spoken language in the sense of a language people use to communicate with each other, Pāli has long been a the language in which Theravada Buddhists chant.
		It is widely believed that Gotama Buddha spoke either in the vernacular Magadhi or some other middle Indo-Aryan vernacular which was the language of the people near Benares in North-East Central India (now Varanasi) where he resided and taught.
		Pāli was considered by early Buddhists to be linguistically similar to old Magadhi or even a direct continuation of that language.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/p/pa/pali.html (503 words)

	The Home of Pali
		Magahi or Magadhi 14 is spoken in the districts of Patna, Gaya, Hazaribagh and also in the western part of Palamau, parts of Monghyr and Bhagalpur.
		Welhelm Geiger 16 considers that Pali was indeed on pure Magadhi, but was yet a form of the popular speech which was based on Magadhi and which was used by Buddha himself.
		Magadhi seems to be a dialect of Kosalan, and there is some evidence that this was the language that the Buddha spoke.
	www.buddhanet.net /budsas/ebud/ebsut059.htm (7306 words)

	Articles - SPECIALITY AND UNIQUENESS OF ODISSI DANCE by Rahul Acharya, Bhubaneswar
		Through ages Udra Magadhi was developed, disciplined and expanded which ultimately symbolized classical form and status, this fact is not at all disputed.
		Orissa alone could preserve the Udra Magadhi in the form for which so much toiling, perception and hurdles were surmounted and still continues to sparkle in its rarest sparkle, lucidity and fluidity intact.
		Udra Magadhi is the epitome of this kind of instinct of the locality with specialty of its own.
	www.narthaki.com /info/articles/article31.html (764 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Pali
		An Indian language in which the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of the Theravada school of Buddhism is written.
		Scholars are divided on whether Pali was actually the language of Magadhi or that it was spoken by the Buddha.
		However it is quite possible that the Buddha spoke several languages and even if he did not speak Pali he certainly spoke one very similar to it.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/dharmadata/fdd58.htm (109 words)

	Magadhi
		Theravada tradition has long held that the Pali language was synonymous with the ancient Magadhi language; however, modern linguistic analysis has revealed that this is likely not the case.
		Magadhi is also the name of one of the three Dramatic Prakrits, and was a language spoken in what is now Bihar in medieval times.
		Many of the texts of the Jain religion are written in old Magadhi.
	www.governpub.com /Languages-M/Magadhi.php (263 words)

	Catchcal.Com > Kaleidoscope > Culture > Dances > Odisi
		In the Natya Shastras, it is mentioned that the ‘Oudra Magadhi’ form of dance was the progenitor of Odissi.
		It is assumed that this Oudra Magadhi dance was the popular dance form in the antiquity which was practiced by the Devdasis.
		In the seventeenth century, it came out of the confines of the temples and ceased to be the sole art of Devdasis as it entered the royal courts.
	www.catchcal.com /kaleidoscope/dances/odisi.asp (731 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Magadhan is "the language of law (dhamma)"
		K.R. Norman characterizes Pali as an “ardha-Magadhi,” that is, a half Magadhi, a dialect closely related to but not as old as the Magadhi that the Buddha likely spoke.
		Pali is likely a “sadhu-bhashya,” a dialect spoken by a the shramanas of a particular region (around the Magadhi area), and it shows influences from a number of dialects.
		He says that the Buddha likely spoke Magadhi, but that Pali, or at least all of the Pali literature is not a clear form of Magadhi, and that likely the Buddha spoke many languages and dialects while teaching to the various groups of people.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?act=findpost&pid=218535 (4511 words)

	Pali - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		Pali is a literary language of the Prakrit language family; it is not now (and never was) an informal, spoken language, in the sense of a mother tongue.
		Pali was considered by early Buddhists to be linguistically similar to Old Magadhi or even a direct continuation of that language.
		However, Magadhi of Asoka's inscriptions is an Eastern Indian language whereas Pali most closely resembles Western Indian inscriptions.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Pali (3635 words)

	A Unique Phenomenon - Page27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The truth is that there is a great deal of similarity in these eastern languages; they are all related to Magadhi Apabhransa which had not, until then, developed many variations in its local forms.
		Therefore this surmise is certainly much strengthened: that their language must have been some form of the Magadhi or Magahi prevalent there.
		With that base the Siddhas unhesitatingly mixed the standard forms of western Apabhransa with the current forms of the adjacent western districts, and thus developed a literary style in their writings which would help them reach out and influence a much wider public with their ideas.
	www.hindubooks.org /HinduPhe/a_unique_phenomenon/page27.htm (170 words)

	Chapter PALAVERAM <i>to</i> PALI of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		The name of the sacred language of the Southern Buddhists, in fact, according to their apparently well-founded tradition Magadhi, the dialect of what we now call South Bahar, in which Sakya Muni discoursed.
		It is one of the Prakrits (see PRACRIT) or Aryan vernaculars of India, and has probably been a dead language for nearly 2000 years.
		Magadhi; and this is called elliptically by the Singhalese Pali, which we have adopted in like use.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1283/20148/2.html (674 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Did Buddha speak Pali?
		The Buddhistic tradition makes the further claim that the Pali Tipitaka is composed in the language used by the Buddha himself.3 For this reason Magadhi is also called Mulabhasa4 as the basic language in which the words of the Buddha were originally fixed.
		Welhelm Geiger16 considers that PM was indeed on pure Magadhi, but was yet a form of the popular speech which was based on Magadhi and which was used by Buddha himself.
		It would be better to say that the difference between Pali and Magadhi, or another prakrit would be more like the difference between Australian spoken English and Southern American spoken English or something like that.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t20568.html (9633 words)

	:: Munshigonj District \| Bangla Language ::
		This new Indo-Aryan (NIA) language is historically related to Irish, English, French, Greek, Russian, persian etc. Bangla is bounded by Oriya, Magadhi and Maithili to the west and Assamese on the east.
		It is perhaps the only language on the basis of which an independent state was created.
		The earliest example of old Bangla is to be found in the poems of the charyapada, though the language of these poems is also related to eastern Magadhi languages.
	www.munshigonj.com /BangladeshSection/BanglaLanguage.htm (3558 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Prakrit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Magadhi Prakrit was the language of the eastern half of the Gangetic valley.
		Some special features of this language are the use of a single sh, the substitution of l for r, y for j, d/d for t and the loss of middle consonants.
		The use of language according to the status of a character enhanced the authenticity of the story.
	banglapedia.org /HT/P_0254.htm (1453 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There are three main languages: Maithili (Tirhutia) and Magadhi (Magahi) in the east and Bhojpurl in the west, extending into the southern half of Chota Nagpur.
		Maithili, spoken in the old country of Mithila (Tirhut), was famous from ancient times for its use among scholars, and it still retains many antiquated linguistic forms.
		Magadhi is considered the modern representative of the Magadhi Prakrit.
	www.primavista.ru /dictionary/lang/bihari.htm (123 words)

	The original language of the Buddha and his teachings (suttas/sutras)
		Of all the Indic language versions of sutras used as Buddhist texts today, those written in Pali are the most numerous and are widely used in the Southern Buddhist countries Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand.
		According to Southern Buddhist tradition, Pali is regarded as the language that Shakyamuni spoke, and therefore is called Magadhi or the fundamental language.
		However, recent studies show that although a little of the Magadhi influence is still evident in the Pali language, the basic characteristics of the two languages are different.
	www.greatwesternvehicle.org /pali/Buddhalanguage.htm (1471 words)

	Prakrit languages
		First Prakrits meant different colloquial dialects, but further they acquired literature forms, and many poems and other Old Indic works were written in them.
		Prakrit history can be divided into 3 periods: the Early period, including Ashoka's inscriptions language; the Middle period, when Shauraseni, Magadhi, Maharashtri, Paishachi, different Jainist Prakrits were spoken in different regions of the country and on Ceylon; and the Late period with the Apabhransha language.
		The usage of Prakrits was based on social status of people - in many classical works of Indian authors (Kalidasa, Bhasa and others) kings and nobles always speak classical Sanskrit, noble ladies use Shauraseni, ordinary people can speak only Magadhi, and peasant women signs their songs in Maharashtri.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/indo/prakrits.html (252 words)

	Bangla Language and Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Linguistic History: Bengali along with two other cognate languages, Assamese and Oriya, as well as Magadhi, Maithili and Bhojpuri in south-east zone forms a linguistic group.
		The literary documents of IA language in Indian Peninsula can be classified into three periods according to their linguistic changes.
		The inadequacy of written documents of immediate Pre-Bengali period is one of the most important limi-tations to find out the gradual change from Apabhramsa, Avahattha to the historic period of Bengali (16th century AD).
	www.isical.ac.in /~rc_bangla/bangla.html (1289 words)

	Archaelogical/Sculptural Evidence
		NãtyaShãstra mentions 4 types of vrittis :anti, Dakshinatya, Panchali, and Odra Magadhi.
		Odhra Magadhi is identified as the earliest precursor of the present Odissi.
		Orissa has been a home for many kingdoms, Buddhist, Jaina and Shaivite and others before the Vaishnavite cult began.
	www.nadanam.com /odissi/o_sculpture.htm (676 words)

	List of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
		This family is also called the Magadhan family, as these languages are all derived from Magadhi Prakrit, a Dramatic Prakrit of the Eastern Indian subcontinent.
		The following languages have not been sorted into subgroups within the Eastern Indo-Aryan language family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Eastern_Indo-Aryan_languages (122 words)

	International Circle of Faith - Training and Equipping of the Saints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 3 most cost-effective countries over 1 million in population for Christian outreach are: Mozambique, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
		Per hour of ministry, the 5 mega peoples most responsive to Christianity, Christ, and the gospel are: Khandeshi, Awadhi, Magadhi, Bai, Berar Marathi.
		Per hour of ministry, the 5 mega peoples least responsive to Christianity, Christ, and the gospel are: Swedish, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish and Georgian.
	www.icof.net /news2.html (344 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Pali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		However, Magadhi of Asoka's inscriptions is an Eastern Indian language whereas Pāli most closely resembles Western Indian inscriptions.
		There are many remarkable analogies between Pali and an old form of Magadhi, - Ardhamagadhi (Half Magadhi), which is preserved in ancient Jain texts.
		Ardhamagadhi differs from Magadhi proper on similar points as Pali.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/?title=Pali (4205 words)

	God's Grace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sharp as his intellect was, so was his heart very broad.
		Even at a young age Shankara, had become proficient in Prakrit Magadhi and Sanskrit languages.
		At The first year of his age he had learnt both Malayali, his mother tongue, and Sanskrit, the language of the Vedas.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/shankara/page1.htm (479 words)

	Reverend Greg: Comment on Shoshin-kai!!!
		The point of this is that the Buddha's actual language of Magadhi was not Pali or Nepalese or any other modern Indic language.
		Scholars believe that Pali is pretty close to the Magadhi dialect that the Buddha probably spoke.
		So the Buddha himself was not attached to Magadhi, or Pali, or Sanskrit or any of that.
	www.fraughtwithperil.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=833 (4791 words)

	Literature - Pali
		The word 'Pali' primarily signifies 'Text' or 'sacred texts' or the text of the Buddhist canon' as opposed to the connentaries, but gradually it bacame the name of the language in which the canon (Tripitika) of the Theravada Buddhism and the ancillary texts were written.
		The Theravada tradition, however, mentions the language as Magadhi and claims that it was the actual speech of the Buddha.
		The major part of the literature written in Pali is religious and philosophical.
	www.ibiblio.org /radha/rpub003.htm (1416 words)

	Bishnupriya Manipuri Language: source and origin
		Some phoneticians have vaguely and partially viewed the Bishnupriya Manipuri language as a resultant language of Magadhi Prakrit and Bengali language.
		But it is a fact that Magadhi Prakrit was the language of demons and the low-caste fellows whose tongues were not so sharp but very slow to utter any thing; whereas the tongues of tee BPM speakers are very sharp to utter any of the Indo-European languages having a close affinity with he original I.E..
		In fact, BPM traces its origin to the Sauraseni -Maharastri Prakrit that is more Sanskritic than the Magadhi Prakrit and the superficial of the Magadhi Apabhramgsa on it is simply the resultant of the local Give and take principle due to long neighbored associations.
	www.manipuri.freeservers.com /bpm.html (4071 words)

	Roots of the Bengali language
		Its Indo-European roots can be traced to the initial split in middle Indo Aryan languages into a NW dialect which grew into Gandhari, the central dialect which grew into Sauraseni, an eastern dialect which became Magadhi and a Southern dialect which lead to, for example, Maharashtri.
		Bengali probably arose out of the Magadhi or Ardhamagadhi prakrts, through mAgadhI apabhraMza.
		It is only a few centuries before the christian era, during the time of rAmAYaNa and mahAbhArata, that the east seems to have come in the indo-european fold.
	members.tripod.com /~tanmoy/bengal/language.html (554 words)

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