| Question 1: Of the sounds listed above only the three consonants in parentheses, ṅ, ḷ, and ḷh, are not distinct ________ in Pali: ṅ only occurs before velar stops and ḷ, and ḷh are allophones of single ḍ, and ḍh between vowels. | |||
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| Question 2: However Pali was ultimately supplanted in ________ by Sanskrit as a literary and religious language following the formulation of Classical Sanskrit by the scholar Panini. | |||
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Question 3: What family does Pali belong to?
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| Question 4: In ________, the chanting of a portion of the Abhidhammapiṭaka is believed to be beneficial to the recently departed, and this ceremony routinely occupies as much as seven working days. | |||
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| Question 5: Historically, the first written record of the Pali canon is believed to have been composed in ________, based on a prior oral tradition. | |||
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| Question 6: In ________, the Pali Text Society has been a major force in promoting the study of Pali by Western scholars since its founding in 1881. | |||
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| Question 7: The Velthuis scheme was originally developed in 1991 by Frans Velthuis for use with his "devnag" Devanāgarī font, designed for the ________ typesetting system. | |||
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| Question 8: King ________ erected a number of pillars with his edicts in at least three regional prakrits in Brahmi script,[13] all of which are quite similar to Pali. | |||
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| Question 9: In ________, Pali texts were recorded in Sinhala script. | |||
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| Question 10: As per the ________ (the chronicle of Sri Lanka), due to a major famine in the country Buddhist monks wrote down the Pali canon during the time of King Vattagamini in 100 BC. | |||
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