> Every Being possesses a deathless Essence (Atta’: True Self, Spirit,
> that which transcends on, either to painful rebirth or to Nibbatta’),

Excuse me, where does it say this in the Nikayas. I must have missed it.

> **Tatha’gata [(Tathan.) Tatta+San.(Samma’)+gata]

Thats some creative etymology dude. With methods like these you could prove
that Tathagata means cucumber.

Dante