A Note on the Jataka Tales 12 by Ramesh

In my opinion Pali was a dialect of the then Sanskrit language It was in currency only in the Nepal valleys and the Buddha gave his sermons in it and made it a language and literature. One might ask how could the Buddha be understood by the people of the neighbouring regions. In that case, well I am from Calcutta. Calcutta has its own dialect Often I go to Midnapore. Midnapore has its own dialect of Bengali language. I cannot speak that. But I can understand what they say That is the fun about a dialect. The Buddha, it is said, gave 84000 sermons in Pali and later the followers of the Buddha looked upon it as the sacred language and they cultivated it and expressed their religious and spiritual thoughts and ideas in it and thus it became the language and literature of a particular religious community. In course of time the Buddha’s notions became a faith with the peoples of different countries such as Ceylone, Burmah, Thailand etc and they wrote in Pali too. Thus Pali as a language flourished.