Hi Yong Peng, Nina and group, Did you get an answer about niite? It almost looks like a locative absolute, though then I'd expect tasmi.m niite or similar. Tr:...
Dear Pali Group, I noticed that the digitalised Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (DPPN) available from Metta Lanka, etc, does not have diacritcs except in the ...
Dear Frank and Stephen Hodge, Regarding the ``monks'' on the roller-coaster: I think that this picture is either from the Go West cigarette brand advertisement...
Dear Nina and friends I appreciaye your respond, The point of death, or birth, in regard to taking the holy life, 'brahmacariya' and indeed the practice, is...
... in stride ... standard, ... purpose of ... significant. ... those ... sure, add that to the swastika, to the ariyan as the 'super man', simply forgeting...
Hello, This is the first part of exercise 6 which will be mainly focusing on past tense of verbs which conjugate like paca and paala. With metta, Florent 1....
Dear Nina, Ole, Rett and friends, thanks. I have been reading 'icchasi' as 'icchi', thereby confusing myself. The punctuation is tricky too, and I tend to...
Dear Nina, Rett and friends, thanks again. It has never occurred to me it is a locative absolute. I have made the necessary corrections, and the full solution...
Dear Alan and friends, just a couple of questions. 1. Is vimuccati of the first conjugation? 2. Do you meant eva.m to be indicative, or indeclinable? Thank...
Hello Yong Peng, Sorry about that. eva.m [indec/adv] thus and vimutto [vi+muc II/pp/nom/sg] freed Though this seems tricky because the passive conjugation of...
Hello all, In the phrase: jaraamara.nassa ce bhikkhu nibbidaaya viraagaaya nirodhaaya pa.tipanno hoti, `dhammaanudhammappa.tipanno bhikkhuu'ti ala.m vacanaaya....
It is a determinative compound hence a tatpurusa, if anything. pa.tipanno is constructed with dhammaanudhamma. Best, Ole Pind ... Fra: Pali@yahoogroups.com...
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Hello. 1) Is the following excerpt from Kalama Sutta a valid argument for the view that the Buddha did not have a clear opinion upon the question of wether or ...
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Hello Ole, all, Can you or anyone else recommend something that would more clearly explain the difference between a tappurisa and a bahubbiihi than Warder's...
Dear Alan and friends, thanks, Alan. Warder's lists vi+muc as Conj. III. I think that is because (1) we have to ignore vi (a prefix), and (2) no nasal is ...
Dear Alan and friends, in order to complete the first passage, I have put together a list of verbs with their stems and conjugational groups. Please help to...
Hi Alan, Here's an attempt to answer your question about classifying compounds. If anything isn't clear I don't mind expanding on it and as always I'm always...
Hello Rett, So, just to clarify, I will give some example based on what I think that I understand: referent: Blessed One compounds: insightful mind tall man ...
Hello All, As discussed with Yong Peng, every Saturday for the forseeable future I will be posting a translation of one or two suttas (depending on length)...
Dear Alan and Yong Peng: I am now confused. From what Alan said, the conjugation depends on prefixes.(?) Should conjugation be considered of the based on the...
Dear friends, I have discovered I made a couple of mistakes in my recent posts on the discussion of Brahma. Here are the corrections: 1. Maha Brahma lives in...
Dear Alan, Thank you very much for your introduction. I really appreciate it very much that you are willing to do this project for us. It will be a great help...
Dear Alan, ... N: What do you think of this: anu-dhamma: in accordance with dhamma. anu: following. Practice of the dhamma in accordance with the dhamma. Now I...
Dear Alan, Jaran and friends, Jaran: no, the conjugation is independent of prefixes. What it is dependent on is an advance topic, and beyond my comprehension. ...
Dear Rett, ... **** Gonda's book might not be easily available for many people. Another excellent and detailed explanation of compounds can be found in...
Dear friends I am confused by a passage from Visuddhimagga-mahatika, inclined to think the reading may be corrupt. However, I am not sure, any comment is very...
Dear Yong Peng: Now I understand. The root muc becomes different stems (including itself) which conjugate differently (II and III) regardless of prefixes. ...