This takes it away back to the time when Talaing influence
was helping to shape Burmese into literary form.
One thing seems certain and that is that, in earlier
times, Talaing was the medium through which Indian
influence was passed on to the Burmese. It was through
that source that Indian religion and Indian literature
very evidently reached the Burmese. There was an earlier
Indian influence through Sanskrit and the northern form
of Buddhism as the many Sanskrit words in Talaing
largely help to prove. In later times the influence has
feeen largely through Southern Buddhism and the Pali.
