More Pali - Every few days - [C115]
Warder - Exercise 16 (page 111)
Passage for Reading 2 (Part 3 of 3)
tam ena.m manussaa disvaa evam aaha.msu:
this / him / people / having seen / thus / they said
People, on seeing him thus, said this:
kacci no tva.m bha.ne ummatto, kacci viceto.
aren�t you? / not / you / I say! / mad / aren�t you? /
daft
�I say! You must be mad, you must be daft?
katha.m hi naama uggharanta.m paggharanta.m yaava
agganakhaa
guuthena makkhito guutha-bhaara.m harissasii ti.
why / though / indeed / oozing / dripping / as far as
/ tip, toe nails / with dung / smeared / dung load /
you will carry / (end-quote)
Why would you carry a load of dung, smeared with dung
oozing and dripping down to the tips of your
toenails?�
tumhe kho ettha bha.ne ummattaa tumhe vicetaa
you / indeed / here / I say! / mad / you / daft
�In this case, I say that you are mad, you are daft,
tathaa hi pana me suukara-bhattan ti.
since / though / then / for me / pig food /
(end-quote)
since for me this is pig-food�. [D.II.347-348 �
xxiii.25]