Dear Yong Peng,

You wrote:
<< (3) DN31 Sigalovada Sutta para.245 [PTS3.181]
Imassa cattaaro kammakilesaa pahiinaa hontii"ti
".For him, the four actions due to defilement are eradicated.">>

In my previous message, I didn't really have anything ready at hand to
explain why I thought the genitive (instead of the dative) was more likely
for "imassa" so here are two quotes that I have found in support of this.

From Duroiselle's grammar:
596. It will be seen from the remarks above that the genitive is often used
instead of the Accusative, the Ablative, the Instrumentive and the Locative.
It is also used adverbially, as kissa, why? It will also be remarked that
whenever the genitive is dependent on a verb, it is so on account of its
being used instead of another case, as in: maatussa sarati.

Tathaagatassaati kara.ne saamivacana.m, tathaagatena jahitaati attho. --
Sp-.t 1.340 (CSCD) This is from Sariputta's tika on the Vinaya cty and is
related to a passage near the beginning of the Vinayapitaka with
tathaagatassa in use with pahiinaa (Vin III 2 -- Mahaavibha"nga).

kara.ne = in the instrumental; saamivacana.m = the possessive or genitive
expression. So "by him" is a possibility for "imassa". I think "for him" may
still be okay but it's not really all that clear which is preferrable.

Best wishes,

Jim

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