Dear Nina and friends,

thanks very much. Pardon me to take only one sentence at a time.

> I compared transl of PTS and Elephant footprint, Wheel 101.
> > Ya.m ajjhatta.m paccatta.m tejo tejogata.m upaadinna.m,
> > that / internally / individually / heat / aflame / clung to
> > That, internally, and individually, is heat, aflame, and clung to,
> >
> > ???tejogata.m - aflame? inflamed?
> N: yam: whatever in oneself is heat...and at end of sentence: this

is heat, fiery, etc. I looked at yam.

> tejogata: PTs has warmth.Wheel has: fiery
> I have come across forms with -gata, but I am not sure. Like to

learn more about -gata, litterally: gone. I think that it makes a
substantive into an adjective. See below.

> N: The Visuddhimagga, an important source for the explanation of

sutta passages, states (XI,36):

> <Fire (tejo) [is definable] as heating. The fiery (tejo-gata) is

what is gone (gata), in the way already described, among the kinds of
fire (tejo). What is that? It has the characteristic of heat.
Whereby: by means of which fire element, when excited, this body is
warmed, becomes heated by the state of one-day fever, and so on.
Ages: whereby this body grows old, reaches the decline of the
faculties, loss of strength, wrinkles, greyness, and so on. Burns up:
whereby, when excited, it causes the body to burn... And whereby what
is eaten, drunk, chewed and tasted gets completely digested... Thus,
the tejo element cooks the food that is eaten or drunk. Excitement:
we can verify for ourselves what happens to the body when excited.

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Thanks for the passage from Visuddhimagga. Is this good book
available in English?

I see a better relation w.r.t the last two paragraphs (solidified &
liquefied). Tejogata.m is more than burning, aflame, it is also
warming, aging, digesting and excitation. Fiery is a better word than
aflame, although it may not refers to aging and digestion.

I am wondering if there are better words, or should we put a footnote
to clarify the limitation we face, or should we put the five
(warming, aging, burning, digestion and excitation) together.

metta,
Yong Peng