More Pali - Every few days - [C196]
Warder - Exercise 19 (page 145)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 17 of 19)
siyaa kho pana bhoto rañño evam assa:
suppose / indeed / then / to the honourable / king /
thus / it would be
Suppose that your majesty would think:
aham eta.m dassu-khiila.m vadhena vaa bandhena vaa
jaaniyaa vaa garahaaya vaa pabbaajanaaya vaa
samuuhanissaamii ti,
I / this / robber-territory / by execution / or / by
imprisonment / or / by deprivation / or / by threat /
or / by banishment / or / I will suppress /
(end-quote)
I will suppress this robber territory by execution,
imprisonment, deprivation, threats, or banishment,
na kho pan etassa dassu-khiilassa eva.m sammaa
samugghaato hoti.
Not / indeed / then / of this / robber-territory /
thus / rightly / suppressed / it is
then this robber territory would not thus be rightly
suppressed.
ye te hataavasesakaa bhavissanti, te pacchaa rañño
janapada.m vihe.thessanti.
who / those / survivors / they will be / those /
afterwards / of the king / country / they will harass
Whoever will survive will harass the kings country
afterwards.