Hi Rett,
thank you. I am also glad with the other example you gave with dhaareti.
I can only read Ven. Pandita's grammar very slowly. How can we make the most
of it? I would like more examples for each item, then one does not forget.
Best would be if several people make their own examples, but then one has to
be firm in English/ Pali, I am not. I feel it would be useful to discuss
this grammar point by point. What do you think?
Thanks also for the pronunciation suggestion,
Nina.
op 04-02-2005 13:58 schreef rett op rett@...:

>
> Yes, this is a use of double accusatives, He makes X into Y, both X
> and Y are put in the accusative. I found it on p. 6, in RG though.
>
> Also with dhaareti, in expressions 'to consider X as Y', ex. upaasake
> no bhagavaa dhaaretu, "may the Fortunate One consider us as disciples"
>
> Another typical double accusative is with causative verbs. An example
> from Saddaniiti is: puriso purisa.m kamma.m kaareti. "The man made
> (another) man do the work".
>