More Pali - Every few days - [C121]
Warder - Exercise 17 (page 120)
Passage for Reading (Part 1 of 2)
bhuutapubba.m mahaa saka.ta-sattho saka.ta-sahassa.m
puratthimaa janapadaa pacchima.m janapada.m agamaasi.
in the past / great / cart caravan / cart thousand /
eastern / district / western / district / went
Once a large caravan of a thousand carts was
travelling from the east to the west.
so yena yena gacchati khippa.m eva pariyaadiyati
ti.na-ka.t.th-odaka.m haritaka-va.n.na.m.
it / wherever / it goes / quickly / just / it exhausts
/ grass firewood water / green colour
Wherever it went, it quickly exhausted the grass,
firewood, water, and green stuff.
tasmi.m kho pana satthe dve satthavaahaa ahesu.m;
in it / indeed / then / caravans / two /
caravan-leader / there were
It was comprised of two caravans and caravan-leaders;
eko pa~ncanna.m sakata-sataana.m, eko pa~ncanna.m
saka.ta-sataana.m.
one / five / cart hundred / one / five / cart hundred
each one consisting of five hundred carts.