Pali classical grammars reflect a specific idea of what Pali Buddhist texts are. According to this traditional idea, texts are mainly conceived as sound and therefore the initial portions of every grammar deal with sound and sound ligature or sandhi. Sandhi in Pali does not work as systematically as it does in Sanskrit and therefore Pali grammarians have struggled with the optionality of many of their rules on sound ligature. Unlike modern linguists, however, they identify certain patterns of fixed or frozen sandhis that are often associated to the formulas of Pali prose. This paper focuses on these specific frozen sandhis in Pali prose and their connection to the nature of Pali literature broadly. The main working hypothesis is the following: in the same way that certain frozen sandhis in verse obey metrical patterns, frozen sandhis in prose suggest that Pali speech-sounds are subordinated to formulaic rhythmic structures.

巴利文经典语法反映了巴利佛教文本的具体概念。根据这个传统观念，文本主要被认为是声音，因此每个语法的开头部分都处理声音和声音连字或sandhi。巴利语中的 Sandhi 不像梵语中那样系统地工作，因此巴利语语法家一直在努力解决他们关于健全连字的许多规则的可选性。然而，与现代语言学家不同的是，他们确定了通常与巴利散文公式相关的固定或冻结的某些模式。本文重点关注巴利文散文中这些特定的冰冻沙地，以及它们与巴利文文学本质的广泛联系。主要的工作假设如下：就像诗歌中某些冻结的sandhis遵循韵律模式一样，