པི་ཤཱ་ཙིའི་སྐད། | Glossary of Terms
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པི་ཤཱ་ཙིའི་སྐད།
- pi shA tsi’i skad
- piśācabhāṣā
- Term
- Paiśāca
- པི་ཤཱ་ཙིའི་སྐད།
- pi shA tsi’i skad
- piśācabhāṣā
Sometimes appearing as Paiśācī, this is considered one of the great canonical languages of Indian Buddhist texts although there are no extant examples of this language. The name literally means “language of the ghosts.” Its history is unclear, but it is often identified as an ancestor of the Indo-Aryan Dardic languages spoken in the Kashmir region.