Ong Yong Peng wrote:

... However, how would you translate bhava~nhi into English?

Dear Yong Peng--

Was this question answered? If you send again the sentence with
bhava~nhi, I will take a
stab at it. Maybe the hi is enclitic, meaning "for, because, through"
(Warder). See his p. 297.-- Rene