10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
2:55 p.m.
From: Rich Alderson
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:40 AM
The earliest Buddhist texts are written in a Middle
Indic[2] language
Oh, crap.
There was only going to be 1 footnote anyway, which I forgot to include:
[1] "Middle Indic" is a designation for the Indo-Aryan[2] languages of the
period roughly between 500 BCE and 800 CE, descended from Old Indic
languages contemporaneous with Vedic, Epic Sanskrit, and Classical
Sanskrit. The Modern Indic languages are descended from various of
the Middle Indic languages.
[2] This is a linguistic classification, prior to the racialist adoption
of the word "Aryan" to mean something entirely different.
I decided in composing the 1st note that the 2nd was needed.
Rich Alderson
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