hendiadys is often characterized by its elevation above the ordinary tone of conventional English and by a kind of syntactical complexity that seems fathomable only by an intuitional understanding of the way the words interweave their meanings, rather than by painstaking lexical analysis.
The oldest documented use of poetry discovered so far is a large body of texts called Vedas, which originate from Ancient India around 1700BC.
More to the point, though, Buddhism originated in that place where this particular wisdom arose; in the heart of the human Gautama Buddha, born in 563 BC in the ruling Kshatriya family of the Lichhavi tribe. In this tradition, it continues to arise and originate each day in hearts all over the globe.