More Pali - Every few days - [C165]
Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145)
Passages for Reading 1 (Part 1 of 15)
te ta.m sattha.m dviidhaa vibhaji.msu ekato pa�ca
saka.ta-sataani ekato pa�ca saka.ta-sataani.
they / this / caravan / in two / divided / one / five
/ hundred carts / one / five / hundred carts
They divided the caravan into two parts, each with
five hundred carts.
eko taava satthavaaho bahu.m ti.na� ca ka.t.tha� ca
udaka� ca aaropetvaa sattha.m payaapesi.
one / now / caravan leader / much / grass / and /
firewood / and / water and / having collected /
caravan / set out
Then one of the caravan leaders collected much grass,
firewood and water and set out.
dviiha-tiiha-payaato kho pana so sattho addasa
purisa.m kaa.la.m lohit-akkha.m apanaddha-kalaapa.m
kumuda-maali.m alla-vattha.m alla-kesa.m
kaddama-makkhiitehi cakkehi gadrabhara-rathena
pa.tipatha.m aagacchanta.m.
two days, three days, set out / indeed / then / this /
caravan / saw / man / black / red-eyed / tied quiver /
white water-lily garland / wet clothes / wet hair /
mud smeared / with wheels / by donkey-cart / in the
opposite direction / coming
After two or three days journey, he saw coming in the
opposite direction a red-eyed, black man, with a
quiver attached, a garland of white water-lilies, wet
clothes and hair, and a donkey cart with mud-spattered
wheels.