More Pali - Every few days - [C084]
Warder - Exercise 13 (page 84)
Passage for Reading (Part 2 of 2)
atha kho tassa sa�nkhadhamassa etad ahosi:
then / indeed / to this / conch blower / this /
occurred
Then the conch blower thought to himself:
yaava baalaa ime paccantajaa manussaa.
to what extent / fools / these / foreign / people
�What fools these foreign people are!
katha.m hi naama ayoniso sa�nkha,sadda.m gavesissantii
ti.
why / indeed / then / unmethodically / conch, sound /
they look for / (end-quote)
Why do they look for the conch sound so
unmethodically?�
tesa.m pekkhamaanaana.m sa�nkha.m gahetvaa tikkhattu.m
sa�nkha.m upalaasitvaa sa�nkha.m aadaaya pakkaami.
of these / looking on / conch / having picked up /
three times / conch / having played / conch / having
taken / he departed
While they were looking on, he picked up the conch,
blew it three times, took the conch, and departed.
[D.II.337-8 (not II.357-8 as per book) � xxiii.19]