Definition of Pāli

PALI is a band located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded by original member Pali Kaaihue (born Pali Tuan W. Ka'aihue on August 28 1972), PALI started off as a duo with co-founding member Kevin Kashiwai. It grew to a six, then four member band.

Pali (IAST: ) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is best known as the language of the earliest extant Buddhist canon, the Pāḷi Canon (Pāḷi: Tipitaka), and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism. Pāli has since been written in a variety of scripts, from the Brahmic family scripts through to a romanised form devised by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Pali Text Society.