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In the opinion of leading linguistic scholars, P li was probably a synthetic language created from several vernaculars to make the Buddhist texts comprehensible to Buddhist monks living in different parts of northern India. P li language was also used to preserve the Buddhist canons of the Therav da Buddhist tradition, which is regarded as the oldest complete collection of Buddhist texts surviving in an Indian language. P li has been used almost exclusively for Buddhist teachings, although many other religious and literary works related to Buddhism were also written in P li.

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Dr. Ankur Barua had done MD in Community Medicine (2003) from Manipal University and is working as Associate Professor of Community Medicine at Melaka-Manipal Medical College in Malaysia. He had also completed MBAIT (2007) from the Sikkim Manipal University and Master of Buddhist Studies from the University of Hong Kong (2009).

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