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Letter from Colonel Fryer. 
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Dr. Hoernre read the following letter from Lt.-Colonel G. E. Fryer. 
“ In a note on page xiii, of the Preface to his ‘ Dictionary of the 
Pali Language,’ the late Professor Childers records the following : 
“ The authorship of the well known stanza asserting Pali to he the 
‘ original language is still unknown. Tumour (Mah. xxvii,) says it 
1 comes from the Payoga-siddhi, a grammar of the fourteenth century ; but 
* this is a mistake, for on examining a MS. of that work I find the stanza 
‘ is merely referred to, the first pada only being quoted. It may possibly 
‘ he in Moggallana Vyakarana, a twelfth century work, but I am inclined 
1 to think it yet older. I venture to quote it here. 
sa Magadhi mulabhasa nara yay’ adikappika 
brahmano c’ assutalapa sambuddha capi bhasare ; 
‘ which means ‘ the Magadhese is the original language in which men of 
‘ former ages and Brahma angels, and those who have never heard speech, 
* and supreme Buddhas speak.’ ” 
With reference to the foregoing I have to state that the stanza occurs in 
the Bupasiddhi—a commentary on Kaccayana’s grammar—in the comment 
on the first sutta of the second—or Nama—book, which is as follows :— 
§ 1. jinavaeanayuttam. hi. 
adhikaro ’yam; tattha pancamare jitava ti' jino; buddho; 
jinassa vaeanam jinavacanam ; tassa jinavacanassa yuttam, jina- 
vacanayuttam, tepitakassa buddhavacanassa magadhikaya sabha- 
vaniruttiya yuttam anurupam evatidam adhikarattham veditab- 
bam. 
sa magadhamulabhasa nara yay’ adikappika 
brahmano c’ assutalapa sambuddha capi bhasare. 
