More Pali - Every few days - [C181]
Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 2 of 19)
tena kho pana samayena Kuu.tadanto braahma.no upari
paasaade divaaseyya.m upagato hoti.
at that / indeed/ then / time / Kutadanta / Brahmin /
upon / palace / day bed / gone up / is
Now the Brahmin Kutadanta had gone up to his day bed
on his palace balcony.
addasaa kho Kuu.tadanto braahma.no Khaa.numatake
braahma.na-gahapatike Khaa.numataa nikkhamitvaa
sa.mghaasa.mghii-ga.niibhuute yena Ambala.t.thikaa
ten� upasa.mkamante.
he saw / indeed / Kutadanta / Brahmin / Khanumatikan /
Brahmin-householders / Khanumata / having departed /
in groups-crowded together / towards / Ambalatthika /
there / approaching
And the Brahmin Kutadanta saw Brahmin householders
from Khanumata crowded together in groups approaching
Ambalatthika.
disvaa khatta.m aamantesi: kin nu kho bho khatte
Khaa.numatakaa braahma.na-gahapatikaa Khaa.numataa
nikkhamitvaa sa.mghaasa.mghii-ga.niibhuutaa yena
Ambala.t.thikaa ten� upasa.mkamantii ti.
having seen / steward / he addressed / what / is it /
indeed / sir / steward / Khanumatikan /
Brahmin-householders / Khanumata / having departed /
in groups-crowded together / towards / Ambalatthika /
there / approaching / (end-quote)
Having seen them he asked his steward: �Sir, why are
the Brahmin householders from Khanumata crowded
together in groups approaching Ambalatthika?�