More Pali - Every few days - [C211]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 1 (Part 4 of 5)
ki.m pana samma saarathi aham pi jaraa-dhammo jara.m
anatiito ti.
why / then / my dear / charioteer / I / too /
age-nature / age / not-passed / (end-quote)
Why then, my dear charioteer, am I too of the nature
to become old? Am I too not gone beyond old age?
tva~n ca deva maya~n c amhaa sabbe jaraa-dhammaa
jara.m anatiitaa ti.
you / and / lord / we / and / are / all / age-nature /
age / not-passed / (end-quote)
Lord, both you and I are of the nature to become old;
we have not gone beyond old age.
tena hi samma saarathii alan daan ajja
uyyaana-bhuumiyaa, ito va antepura.m paccaniyyaahii
ti.
well then / my dear / charioteer / enough / then /
today / park-place / from here / just / inner palace /
return / (end-quote)
Well then, my dear charioteer, enough for today.
Return from here to the inner palace.
eva.m devaa ti kho bhikkhave saarathii Vipassiissa
kumaarassa pa.tissutvaa tato va antepura.m
paccaniyyaasi.
yes / lord / (end-quote) / indeed / monks / charioteer
/ to Vipassi / to prince / having replied / from there
/ just / inner palace / returned
Yes, lord, the charioteer replied to Prince Vipassi,
monks, and returned from there to the inner palace.