More Pali - Every few days - [C141]
Warder - Exercise 18 (page 129)
Passage for Reading 2 (Part 6 of 20)
atha kho raajaa Da.lhanemi je.t.thaputta.m kumaara.m
saadhuka.m rajje samanusaasitvaa
then / indeed / king / Dalhanemi / eldest-son / prince
/ thoroughly / of the kingdom / having well instructed
Then King Dalhanemi instructed his eldest son, the
prince, thoroughly in the ways of the kingdom,
kesa-massu.m ohaaretvaa kaasaayaani vatthaani
acchaadetvaa agaarasmaa anagaariya.m pabbaji.
hair-beard / having removed / yellow / robes / having
put on / from home / to homelessness / he went forth
shaved off his hair and beard, put on the yellow
robes, and went forth from home to homelessness.
sattaaha-pabbajite kho pana raaj-isimhi dibba.m
cakkaratana.m antaradhaayi.
seventh-going forth / indeed / then / king-sage /
divine / wheel-treasure / disappeared
Then on the seventh day of the going forth of the
royal sage the wheel-treasure disappeared.