--- On Tue, 10/21/08, J R <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> 
> 
> This is starting to sound like one of those essentials ...
> Sanskrit is
> essentially Pali spoken in TIbetan by a Chinese. No,
> wait....
> 
> Josh

I thought Pali was Sanskrit as spoken in Boston:

Skt -> Pali

Dharma -> dhamma
Karma -> kamma
sutra -> sutta 
parvata -> pabbata (mountain)

with a very large number of words being the same.

--gary