Question

Select the correct language in which Jain and Buddhist literature were written?
A. Prakrit
B. Pali
C. Sanskrit
D. Both A and B

Answer 1

Hint: Jain and Buddhist literature was written in two different languages respectively.
-Language used in Jain literature is similar to Sanskrit in minute ways.
-Buddhist literature used a language that was spoken by the Indonesians in the 14th-18th century.

Complete answer:
Jain Literature is called Jain Agamas. They have accepted writings of Jainism dependent on Mahavira's lessons. There are in every one of the 46 writings.
Agamas are written in Ardhamagadhi, a type of Prakrit. The Jain Agamas contain the messages of the Tirthankaras which were systematized by their followers in later occasions. Since a large portion of the early educated were Missionaries, with a point of spreading the Jaina reasoning and lessons to the majority, they decided to systematize the messages of the Tirthankaras in the language prevalently utilized by the everyday person.
During the lifetime of Buddha, he urged his priests to spread his lessons in the vernacular. After his demise, the Buddhist ordinance was defined and sent by oral convention, and it was recorded in a few variants in the 2nd and first century. B.C. Its primary divisions, called Pitakas.
Tripitaka, otherwise called Pali Canon in English, is a conventional term utilized for Buddhist sacred texts. The three pitakas are Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka, and Vinaya Pitaka.

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:The Jataka is the assortment of anecdotes about the past birth life of Gautam Buddha. In these accounts, he was meant as a person just as a creature. These accounts were written in Pali and Sanskrit language.
The Agama writing is voluminous containing 12 Angas, 12 Upangas, 4 Mulas, 2 Chulika Sutras, 6 Cheda Sutras, and 10 Prakirnakas. Agamas have analyses like the Niryuktis and Bhasyas which are in verse style, while the discourses written in exposition style are known as Curnis.