More Pali - Every few days - [C151]
Warder - Exercise 18 (page 129)
Passage for Reading 2 (Part 16 of 20)
disvaa ra��o khattiyassa etad ahosi:
having seen / to the king / to the warrior / thus / it
was:
On seeing this, the warrior king thought:
suta.m kho pana m� eta.m:
heard / indeed / then / by me / this
�I have heard it said that
yassa ra��o khattiyassa dibba.m cakkaratana.m
paatubhavati, so hoti cakkavattii ti.
to which / king / warrior / divine / wheel-treasure /
it appears / he / is / wheel-turning monarch /
(end-quote)
a warrior king to whom a divine wheel-treasure appears
will become a wheel-turning monarch.
assa.m nu kho aha.m raajaa cakkavattii ti.
may I be / is it not / indeed / I / king /
wheel-turning monarch / (end-quote)
May I be such a wheel-turning monarch.�