Sabhāvanirutti - Magadhi

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

Yes. Bhante Sujato already wrote about this issue here:

On the Paṭisambhidās: why Theravadins get so mixed up about words

In recent times, there have been a number of discussions, here and elsewhere, on various weird conspiracy-style theories that have emerged among monks regarding highly eccentric, bordering on crazy, theories. They might be systematic re-assigning of meanings of words—which assumes that the people who used a language had no idea what it meant—or a wholesale reinvention of history—the Buddha was born in Sri Lanka, for example. Most of the ones we’ve heard of have come from Sri Lanka, but I’m not s…