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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bu.edu!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  2. From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  4. Subject: Re: Asians
  5. Message-ID: <9301261655.AA22560@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 16:55:00 GMT
  7. Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. Lines: 11
  9. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  10. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  11.  
  12. >>I thought Buddhist sutras were in Pali, not Sanskrit.
  13. >
  14. >  Some of them, which are called something, are in Pali, and others,
  15. >which are also called something, are in Sanskrit.
  16.  
  17. I can't think of what they can possibly be called other than "sutra"s
  18. (in Sanskrit) or "sutta"s (in Pali). I thought that all of the Buddhist
  19. suttas were in the Sutta-pitaka, but of course I was only going by the
  20. name.
  21.  
  22. tushar
  23.