Dear friends, Going by what you have quoted from the text book, it looks as if the prose order of the words in this stanza is: "tassa vatthu-ta.nhaa hi citte ...
I must hasten to add (1) The metre is Vasantatilakaa which requires the 8th syllable of a foot to be long. ('aa' not 'a'.) (2) Changing 'karu.nayaa' to...
this seems to be the appropriate break-up of "matakaakaara.m": Mataka + aakaara.m = matakaakaara.m Mataka = dead, one who is dead // aakaara.m = form,...
Dear Mahinda and Florent, Mahinda, thanks for your explanation, particularly on Pali metre, which I am not familiar with. However, just to point out, 'mahaa-'...
Dear Yong, Thanks. The order of words you give is that of English. It would of course be different by the Pali order. In Pali we never begin a sentence with a...
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Thomas, This is an interesting problem, that I have thought about, too. I think sutta and geyyaa here (as pointed by Ven Analayo) probably do not refer to the...
Dear Palihawadana and Yong Peng, Thank you very much for your explanations and attempts to translate these verses. How do you explain though that the CSCD has...
Dear Florent, It is quite possible that both CSCD and Buddhadatta are on wrong track, for different reasons. Such things happen and I have come across many...
Dear Piya and Thomas, ... N: On the dsg list Sarah Abbot, gave Thomas some extracts of texts which may be of interest to others as well. The first is from Jim....
Dear Nina, If we take the Buddhist TEXTS as a collection as it is today (like the Bible), it is easy to follow and accept what you have presented. For a few...
Greeting, I need help about one of the sutta. One of my friend told me that in one of the sutta, Lord Buddha, after a discourse, turned around and asked a...
Dear Piya, thank you for your mail and personal impressions. I can understand how you feel, you can express your thoughts very well. I cannot go into all of...
Dear Thomas, ... Instead of "veyyakara.nassa hetu", the CSCD version reads "veyyaakara.na.m tassa hetu". I think the latter is the correct one. ... I think the...
Dear Mahinda, Op 2-okt-2008, om 7:29 heeft Mahinda Palihawadana het volgende ... N: I did not follow the whole thread, but my eye caught: avakaasa. In PED it...
Dear Nina and Florent, It is interesting that in 'avakaasa' too we have a preference shown to a form closer to Sanskrit (avakaa'sa) than 'okaasa' which is...
Dear Nina & Pali friends, Thanks for your diplomatic note. Yes we are both hard-headed actually, as far as self-effacement is wholesome. It;'s good to have a...
... reads "veyyaakara.na.m ... difference in ... accurate ... The commentary is helpful here. It represents the Buddha as saying that a monk should not run...
Dear Piya, Op 3-okt-2008, om 4:00 heeft Piya Tan het volgende geschreven: Does this mean that all the nine angas are already there even when the Buddha started...
Dear Nina and Pali friends, That's quite a lot of words, but we agree on the essential point. ... My main question regarding the "history" (as you put it)...
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Dear Jim, Thank you very much for the textual information from the CSCD version, and your translation and explanation of the Pali sentence. It is good to know...
Dear Piya, Thanks for your mail. ... N: I am all for it. I do not believe in long debates about the Abhidhamma. When I first came to the list you wrote a...
Dear Mahinda Palihawadana, Thank you very much for giving the commentary's information to support the CSCD version and the translation suggested by Jim. Could ...
Dear Thomas Law, I used the online version of CSCD itself. I don't know if you have used the CSCD commentaries before. You have to click on A.t.thakathaa and...
Dear Mahinda, Nina and Florent, thanks for the interesting discussion. As I gather from the latest bits of this discussion: 1. as a results of metrical...
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