More Pali - Every few days - [C216]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 4 of 17)
atha kho bhagavaa Vaase.t.tha.m aamantesi:
then / indeed / Blessed one / Vasettha (and
Bharadvaja) / addressed
The Blessed One addressed Vasettha and Bharadvaja:
tumhe khv attha Vaase.t.thaa braahma.na-jaccaa
braahma.na-kuliinaa braahma.na-kulaa agaarasmaa
anagaariya.m pabbajitaa.
you / indeed / you are / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) /
brahmin-born / brahmin-by clan / brahmin-bred / from
home / to homelessness / have gone forth
Vasettha and Bharadvaja, you are both born brahmins,
from recognized brahmin families, raised as brahmins,
and you have gone forth from the home life into
homelessness.
kacci vo Vaase.t.thaa braahma.naa na akkosanti na
paribhaasantii ti.
isnt it so? / you / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) / the
brahmins / not / abuse / not / defame / (end-quote)
Do not the brahmins abuse and defame you?
taggha no bhante braahma.naa akkosanti paribhaasanti
attaruupaaya paribhaasaaya paripu.n.naaya no
aparipu.n.naayaa ti.
certainly / us / reverend sir / the brahmins / abuse /
defame / ourselves / with defame / full / not /
not-full / (end-quote)
Certainly, reverend sir, the brahmins abuse and
defame us to the point that we are completely full of
abuse.