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Post by Guest Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:08 pm

Paisaci, also known as Paisachi, or Paishachi, is an extinct language of classical India, mentioned as a medium of debate and literary expression in various Theravada Buddhist sources, and in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. It is not known to what extent this was a vernacular or an artificial literary language, comparable to Pāli.
The Sanskrit etymology of the name of the language (suggesting that it means "spoken by demons") is deemed by modern scholars to be either jocular or simply false. As with most languages, the name seems to be devolved from a toponym associated with the origin or homeland of the language.[citation needed] In works of Sanskrit poetics such as Daṇḍin's Kavyadarsha, it is also known by the name of Bhutabhasha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisaci

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