More Pali - Every few days - [C223]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 11 of 17)
hoti kho so Vaase.t.thaa samayo ya.m kadaa ci karaha
ci diighassa addhuno accayena aya.m loko
sa.mva.t.tati.
there is / indeed / this / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) /
time / which / at any time / at some time / of long /
time / after the lapse of / this / world / dissolves
There comes a time, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, when, at
some time after a long period of time, this world
dissolves.
sa.mva.t.tamaane loke yebhuyyena sattaa
aabhassara-sa.mva.t.tanikaa honti.
in the dissolving / world / mostly / beings / world of
radiance-involving / are
In the dissolving world, beings are mostly born in the
world of radiance.
te tattha honti mano-mayaa piiti-bhakkhaa sayam-pabhaa
antalikkha-caraa subha-.t.thaayino, cira.m diigham
addhaana.m ti.t.thanti.
they / there / there are / mind-made / rapture-feeding
on / self-luminous / sky-moving / lustre-remaining /
for a long time / long / period / they stay
And there they are, mind-made, feeding on rapture,
self-luminous, moving through the sky, lustrous, and
they stay that way for a very long time.