Dear John and friends,

thanks, John, you are right. Allow me to add that:

1. bhuupati is covered in Pali Primer Lesson 25.

2. raaja is covered in An Elementary Pali Course (Narada) Lesson
XVII/17 and Introduction to Pali (Warder) pg 153.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, John Kelly wrote:
> It is true that the word bhuupaalo is very uncommon in
> the canon. Clearly Lily de Silva, author of "Pali
> Primer" chose it over maore common words for king,
> because it is a regular masculine -a stem noun, which
> the others aren't.
>
> I think the Pali Primer is an excellent starting book
> for people very new to Pali. Its two biggest
> limitations are that it doesn't use texts from the
> canon in its exercises and that its explanations for
> more complex grammatical material in the latter half
> of the book is very superficial. However, its great
> strength is that it is very unintimidating to the
> beginner because it introduces material very gently -
> the first 8 chapters just cover the 8 case declensions
> of the masculine -a stem nouns, one at a time!
>
> I found the book very useful as a starting point to
> going onto a more advanced (and more interesting)
> book, and as this list knows, I have been diligently
> working through all the material in the
> Gair-Karunatillake "New Course in Reading Pali", and
> posting my answers to the group. Having almost
> finished with that, I now feel ready to tackle
> Warder's "Introduction to Pali".