More Pali - Every few days - [C186]
Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 7 of 19)
tena kho pana samayena anekaani braahma.na-sataani
Khaa.numate pa.tivasanti:
at that / indeed / time / many / Brahmin-hundreds / in
Khanumata / they were living
Now at that time many hundreds of Brahmins were living
in Khanumata
Kuu.tadantassa braahma.nassa mahaa-ya��a.m
anubhavissaamaa ti.
of Kutadanta / the Brahmin / great-sacrifice / we will
participate / (end-quote)
in order to participate in the Brahmin Kutadanta�s
great sacrifice,
assosu.m kho te braahma.naa:
they heard / indeed / these / Brahmins
and these Brahmins heard that
Kuu.tadanto kira braahma.no sama.na.m Gotama.m
dassanaaya upasa.mkamissatii ti.
Kutadanta / really / Brahmin / wanderer / Gotama / to
see / he will approach / (end-quote)
the Brahmin Kutadanta would go to see the wanderer
Gotama.
atha kho te braahma.naa yena Kuu.tadanto braahma.no
ten� upasa.mkami.msu,
then / indeed / these / brahmins / towards / Kutadanta
/ the Brahmin / there / they approached
Then these Brahmins approached the Brahmin Kutadanta
upasa.mkamitvaa Kuu.tadanta.m braahma.na.m etad
avocu.m:
having approached / Kutadanta / the Brahmin / thus /
they said
and said to him:
sacca.m kira bhava.m Kuu.tadanto sama.na.m Gotama.m
dassanaaya upasa.mkamissatii ti.
true / really / honourable / Kutadanta / wanderer /
Gotama / to see / he will approach / (end-quote)
�Is it really true that the honourable Kutadanta will
go to see the wanderer Gotama?�