More Pali - Every few days - [C209]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 1 (Part 2 of 5)
atha kho bhikkhave Vipassii kumaaro bhadda.m yaana.m
abhiruuhitvaa bhaddehi bhaddehi yaanehi
uyyaana-bhuumi.m niyyaasi.
then / indeed / monks / Vipassi / prince / good /
carriage / having mounted / by the very good /
carriages / to the park-place / he set out
Then, monks, Prince Vipassi mounted one of the very
fine carriages and set out to the pleasure park by
means of them.
addasaa kho bhikkhave Vipassii kumaaro
uyyaana-bhuumi.m niyyanto purisa.m ji.n.na.m
gopaanasi-vanka.m bhogga.m da.n.da-paraaya.na.m
pavedhamaana.m gacchanta.m aatura.m gata-yobbana.m.
he saw / indeed / monks / Vipassi / prince /
park-place / going out to / man / aged / roof
bracket-crooked / bent / stick-depending on /
trembling / going / afflicted / gone-youth
While on his way to the pleasure park, Prince Vipassi
saw a very old man, bent like a roof gable, leaning on
a stick, tottering, afflicted, his youth gone.