More Pali - Every few days - [C189]
Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 10 of 19)
eva.m vutte Kuu.tadanto braahma.no te braahma.ne etad
avoca:
this / having been said / Kutadanta / the Brahmin /
thus / spoke
When this was said, the Brahmin Kutadanta said:
tena hi bho mama pi su.naatha yathaa mayam eva
arahaama ta.m bhavanta.m Gotama.m dassanaaya
upasa.mkamitu.m,
well then / sir / to me / too / listen / just as / we
/ thus / are fitting / this / honourable / Gotama / to
see / to approach
Well then, gentlemen, listen to me: indeed it is
fitting that we go to see the honourable Gotama,
na tv eva arahati so bhava.m Gotamo amhaaka.m
dassanaaya upasa.mkamitu.m.
not / definitely / it is fitting / the / honourable /
Gotama / us / to see / to approach
and it is definitely not fitting that the honourable
Gotama come to see us.
sama.no khalu bho Gotamo Khaa.numata.m anuppatto,
Khaa.numate viharati Ambala.t.thikaaya.m.
the wanderer / indeed / Gotama / Khanumata / arrived /
in Khanumata / is living / at Ambalatthika
The wanderer Gotama has arrived in Khanumata and is
living here at Ambalatthika,
ye kho pana ke ci sama.naa vaa braahma.naa vaa
amhaaka.m gaama-kkhetta.m aagacchanti atithii no te
honti.
which / indeed / then / whatever / wanderers / or /
Brahmins / or / us / village-field / they come /
guests / our / they / are
and whatever wanderers or Brahmins come to our village
and fields are our guests.
atithii kho pan amhehi sakkaatabbaa garukaatabbaa
maanetabbaa puujetabbaa.
guests / indeed / then / by us / should be entertained
/ should be shown respect / should be revered / should
be honoured
Indeed guests should be entertained, shown respect,
revered and honoured by us.