Exercise 16 p116 Translate into English 1."Paccati munino bhatta.m Thoka-thoka.m kule kule."Thg. 31.[Khuddakanikaaye, Theragaathaapaa.li, Nidaanagaathaa, 3....
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flrobert2000
Dec 2, 2008 10:57 am
Dear All, I hope you all managed to observe yesterday's beautiful planetary conjunction which drew a beautiful cosmic smile in the sky. I took some pictures of...
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Jacques Huynen
jhuynen
Dec 2, 2008 1:56 pm
Could be an adverbial accusative of the participle (in a "bound" way ... ?) Jacques Huynen ... From: flrobert2000 <flrobert2000@...> Subject: [Pali]...
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mahipaliha
Dec 2, 2008 6:50 pm
... It means "Let him be bound at six places (of the body) with a hundred bonds". The grammar of 'bajjhata.m": Passive voice, Imperative, Attanopada, 3 person...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 3, 2008 1:19 am
Dear Florent, ... delightful ... I think "bajjhata.m" is a passive verb derived from the root /bandh/, middle imperative, 3rd person singular, and constructed...
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flrobert2000
Dec 3, 2008 8:01 am
Dear Mahapaliha, Jim and Jacques, Thank you very much for your help. I just couldn't understand why Buddhadatta translated it "let (him) be bound". I spent...
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mahipaliha
Dec 3, 2008 5:08 pm
... The point that Jim makes is valid. Cha-mhi is a really curious form: a singular (loc.) suffix added to a word that has a plural sense. Although chahi is...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 5, 2008 12:16 am
Dear Mahinda, ... I don't know much about metres, but it appears to me that, from looking at the lines in the verses at J IV 310, the second last syllable of...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
Dec 5, 2008 1:55 am
Jim, I'm not sure if chamhi can be divided into cha-mhi, because there is no such syllable or sound in Pali. But there is nha as in nhataka. The oddity is best...
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flrobert2000
Dec 5, 2008 8:03 am
Dear Mahinda and Jim, I found three occurrences of this verse in the CSCD: 1) In Jaatakapaa.li, 14. Paki.n.nakanipaato, 488. Bhisajaataka.m : So bajjhatuu...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 5, 2008 6:21 pm
Dear Piya, ... The Saddaniiti explains the following group of combined letters: ~nh, .nh, nh, mh, yh, lh, vh, .lh. Apparently, the pronunciation of the h in...
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thomasbmaclennan
thomasbmacle...
Dec 5, 2008 10:38 pm
Im loooking for audio files of Pali words, spoken Pali. Any ideas?...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 6, 2008 12:27 am
Dear Florent, ... both ... also ... I think SLL on the second line should be SLS. ... p335 ... I checked a translation (which includes tables) of the standard ...
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mahipaliha
Dec 6, 2008 3:51 am
Dear Florent, Jim and Piya To address a few points in this discourse: (1) Our problem related to words ferom a verse found in a cluster of texts having the...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Dec 6, 2008 11:13 am
Dear Thomas, there are more possibilities, but I just give one link: http:// www.aimwell.org/Help/Pali/pali.html Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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ardavarz
Dec 7, 2008 5:15 am
Sotthi vo! Hello, everybody! My name is Emil Kolarov alias Ardavarz from Bulgaria. I study Pali here by myself and there is a question I've wondered about, but...
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Mahinda Palihawadana
mahipaliha
Dec 7, 2008 7:17 am
Dear Jim, As you say the metre of this verse is Indravajra. It is a metre more commonly used in ornate (kaavya) literary works, like the Hatthavanagalla ...
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mahipaliha
Dec 7, 2008 8:44 am
... Dear Florent, The root is not bajjha. Bajjha is the stem, i.e., root+ conjugational sign. Root is badh- and conj. sgn is -ya-. That will give badhya- ...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 7, 2008 7:31 pm
Dear Mahinda, Thanks for your comments and observation in this and the previous messages. Here's my response: You wrote: << As you say the metre of this verse...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
Dec 8, 2008 1:20 am
Mahinda has misquoted me. WhatI said was that the word chamhi is problematic and I don't think it should be broken up as cha + mhi and unlike nha, it is not...
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Mahinda Palihawadana
mahipaliha
Dec 8, 2008 12:15 pm
... Dear Piya I apologize unreservedly. I thought that you said there is no -mh- in Pali. I realize that you hadn't meant to say so. Of course I didn'tt intend...
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Mahinda Palihawadana
mahipaliha
Dec 8, 2008 1:30 pm
Dear Jim, These are issues that I would like to discuss in some detail. But right now, my attention is on some other personal matters of urgency. I will come...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Dec 8, 2008 3:22 pm
Dear Florent, Jacques, Mahinda, Jim, Piya and friends, I apologise for interrupting the ongoing discussion on Pali metre. I was trying to wrap up my study and...
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flrobert2000
Dec 11, 2008 10:35 am
Dear friends, In most of the cases we find the aorist form "tenupasa";nkami" (as in atha kho raajaa maagadho ajaatasattu vedehiputto yena bhagavaa ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Dec 11, 2008 7:51 pm
Dear Florent, ... N: It looks like an imperative. You must approach. Nina. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Dec 11, 2008 10:37 pm
Dear Florent, It looks like 2nd person singular imperative. "Come, brahmin, approach the Blessed One!" By the way, Florent, I've been meaning to thank you for...
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Stephen Hodge
kiciyel
Dec 12, 2008 12:24 am
Dear Palistas, I wonder if any well-read person can solve this problem for me. Within certain sutra I a reading in Chinese, the interlocutor asks the Buddha...
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Piya Tan
piya.tan
Dec 12, 2008 3:36 am
Stephen, This is what you are looking for (from the Ayyikaa Sutta): Sabbe sattÄ marissanti, maraṇantañhi jÄ«vitaṃ; YathÄkammaṃ gamissanti, ...
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Mahinda Palihawadana
mahipaliha
Dec 12, 2008 3:37 am
Dear Jim, To continue our conversation regarding the Cariyaapi.taka stanza "so bajjhata.m.." etc. (1) Metre: One can agree with your wanting to change the name...
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Jim Anderson
jimanderson_on
Dec 12, 2008 4:04 pm
Dear Mahinda, Thank-you for your additional notes. I have to start getting ready to close up the cottage and relocate to another residence tomorrow where I...
