More Pali - Every few days - [C076]
Warder - Exercise 12 (page 75)
Passage for Reading (Part 2 of 2)
sannipatitvaa ta.m sa"nkhadhama.m etad avocu.m:
having assembled / this / conchblower / this / they
said
They assembled and then said to the conchblower:
ambho kissa nu kho eso saddo eva.m rajaniiyo eva.m
kamaniiyo eva.m madaniiyo ti.
friend / what / is it / indeed / this / sound / thus /
exciting / thus / lovely thus / lovely / (end-quote)
�Friend, what is this sound that is so exciting, so
lovely, and so intoxicating?�
eso kho, bho, sa"nkho naama yass� eso saddo eva.m
rajaniiyo eva.m kamaniiyo eva.m madaniiyo ti.
this / indeed / sir / conch / named / of which / this
/ sound / thus / exciting / thus / lovely / thus /
intoxicating / (end-quote)
�This, friends, with a sound so exciting, so lovely,
and so intoxicating is called a conch�. [D.II.337 �
xxiii.19]