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The 23 pages that link to Pali, each with the reason it gives.

• SanskritCompared with: Pali carries Buddhist textual traditions distinct from Sanskrit’s broader literary history.

• Pali CanonRelated: The canon’s language connects its texts to a distinctive transmission and study tradition.

• PrakritRelated: Pali offers a closely related but distinct literary record of Middle Indo-Aryan.

• BuddhaghosaNarrower topic: Buddhaghosa wrote and compiled his major works in this language.

• Thai languageRelated: Pali religious vocabulary entered Thai through Buddhist learning and institutions.

• DhyanaRelated: Its cognate jhana appears in early Buddhist teachings on meditative absorption.

• MahāvaṃsaNarrower topic: The chronicle’s language connects it to Sri Lankan Buddhist scholarship.

• Pagan KingdomRelated: Pali texts and inscriptions connected Pagan’s religious life to wider Theravada traditions.

• MahaviharaRelated: The monastery’s textual learning and commentaries were transmitted in Pali.

• Mon languageRelated: Pali religious texts entered Mon literary culture through Buddhist study and translation.

• ApabhraṃśaCompared with: Pali is another literary Middle Indo-Aryan language, but with a distinct canon and history.

• Buddhist chantingRelated: Pali remains a major liturgical language for chanting in Theravada Buddhism.

• Burmese languageRelated: Buddhist learning introduced extensive Pali vocabulary into Burmese religious and literary usage.

• Khmer languageRelated: Pali religious terms entered Khmer through centuries of Buddhist teaching and practice.

• MettāNarrower topic: The term mettā comes from Pāli Buddhist vocabulary.

• Sutta PiṭakaRelated: The surviving Sutta Piṭaka is transmitted in this canonical language.

• DipavamsaNarrower topic: The chronicle’s language connects it to Sri Lanka’s Theravada textual tradition.

• Thai scriptRelated: Thai writing traditions also adapted Indic-derived letters for Buddhist Pali texts.

• DhammapadaRelated: The Dhammapada’s received canonical text is in Pali.

• Myazedi inscriptionRelated: Pali supplies the inscription’s Buddhist and learned linguistic register.

• Abhidhamma PiṭakaRelated: The Abhidhamma Piṭaka survives as part of the Pāli-language canon.

• Sinhala languageCompared with: Pali is a canonical literary language; Sinhala is a living vernacular with its own literary tradition.

• Somdet To BrahmaramsiRelated: Knowledge of Pali was essential to the scriptural study associated with his reputation.