A Note on the Jataka Tales 5a

Besides Turkey of Kamal Pasha got rid of all loan words prefixes and suffixes to be reborn. This was an impossible feat achieved. You can not think of English shorn of its loan words, prefixes and suffixes. Even the word church is a loan word from Greek The words—sister, brother, Tuesday, Thursday, are loan words. So even if it were true that as early as during the sixth century BC Pali was the language of the common men of some parts of North India Sanskrit was also in vogue till the eleventh century as a spoken language. When I was a boy of 16, I met Kashmiri pandits who spoke among themselves in Sanskrit. In fact the Indians did not know any thing about Buddhism and Pali language before the advent of the Britishers in India.