More Pali - Every few days - [C122]
Warder - Exercise 17 (page 120)
Passage for Reading (Part 2 of 2)
atha kho tesa.m sattha-vaahaana.m etad ahosi:
then / indeed / of these / of the caravan-leaders /
thus / it was
Then the following thought occurred to these
caravan-leaders:
aya.m kho mahaa saka.ta-sattho saka.ta-sahassa.m.
this / indeed / great / cart caravan / cart thousand
�This indeed is a large cart caravan with a thousand
carts.
te maya.m yena yena gacchaama khippam eva
pariyaadiyati ti.na-ka.t.th-odaka.m
haritaka-va.n.na.m.
they / we / wherever / we go / quickly / just / it
exhausts / grass firewood water / green colour
Wherever we go, they quickly exhaust the grass,
firewood, water, and green stuff.
yan nuuna maya.m ima.m sattha.m dvidhaa vibhajeyyaama
ekato pa~nca saka.ta-sataani.
which / is it not / we / this / caravan / in two / we
should divide / each / five / cart hundred
Should we not divide this caravan into two, each with
five hundred carts?� [D.II.342-3 � xxiii.23]