From: nina van gorkom
Message: 2480
Date: 2003-04-26
> N: and where what is munched, drunk, eaten and tasted passes out ofN: Yes, it should be whereby. ...
> the body lower down.
>
> Y: hence -- and whereby (food) being tasted, chewed, drunk and eaten
> passes out of the body lower down,
>> adhobhaaga.m (m.) the lower part (of body).N: Perhaps too free? I quote now from First Book Abhidhamma, Dhammasangani:
>
>> agha.m aghagata.m, vivara.m vivaragata.m, asamphu.t.tha.m,
> ma.msalohitehi, upaadinna.m -
> N: (which is)sky, belonging to sky, an opening, hollow, untouched by
> flesh and blood (in the body), clung to.
>
> Y: what about 'open' or 'clear' (as in not closed/blocked) to
> describe the characteristic of sky?
>N: instead of open: do you like: vacuum, or; belonging to sky, or empty,
> Y: hence -- sky, open, an opening, hollow, untouched by flesh and
> blood (in the body), clung to.