The Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses - Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists #262855

Nor is the language, whether Sanskrit or Péli, a safe guide for fixing dates. Both languages continue to be written to our own time, and though there are some characteristic marks to distinguish more modern from more ancient Buddhist Sanskrit and Pali, this branch of critical scholarship requires to be cultivated far more extensively and accurately before true scholars would venture to fix the date of a Sanskrit or Pali text on the strength of linguistic evidence alone 2.