Dear Group,

I have a Pali question please.

I have an Argentinian friend who is translating this Dhammapada verse into
Spanish:

"Through many a birth in Samsara wandered I,
seeking but not finding the builder of the house.
Sorrowful is birth again and again.
O housebuilder, thou art seen!
Thou shall build no house again.
All thy rafters are broken;
the ridge-pole is shattered.
My mind has attained the unconditioned.
Achieved is the end of suffering."

Dhammapada (vv. 153-154) According to the commentary, these verses are the
Buddha's "Song of Victory," his first utterance after his Enlightenment. The
house is individualized existence in samsara, the house-builder craving, the
rafters the passions and the ridge-pole ignorance.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/dpnotes.htm

He would like to know which is the original pali word for "ridge-pole"
and the original literal meaning. Do you think you are able to find it?

Thanks / Antony.