Pali - Every few days - [C226]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 14 of 17)
atha kho tesa.m Vaase.t.thaa sattaana.m kadaa ci
karaha ci diighassa addhuno accayena rasaa-pa.thavii
udakasmi.m samataani.
then / indeed / for these / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja)
/ beings / at any time / at some time / of long / time
/ after the lapse of / essence-earth / in water /
evenness
And then, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, at some time after
a long period of time, earth-essence spread evenly
over the water with these beings,
seyyathaa pi naama payaso tattassa nibbaayamaanassa
upari santaanaka.m hoti, evam eva paaturahosi.
just as / too / indeed / of milk / hot / cooling /
upon / film / there is / thus / just / was manifest
and this was manifest just like a film that appears on
hot milk as it cools down.
saa ahosi va.n.na-sampannaa gandha-sampannaa
rasa-sampannaa,
it / was / colour-endowed / smell-endowed /
taste-endowed /
It was endowed with colour, smell, and taste;
seyyathaa pi naama sampanna.m vaa sappi, sampanna.m
vaa navaniita.m, eva.m-va.n.naa ahosi;
just as / too / indeed / endowed / or / ghee / endowed
/ or / butter / of such-colour / it was
it was the colour of ghee or butter,
seyyathaa pi naama khudda.m madhu ane.laka.m
evam-assaadaa ahosi.
just us / too / indeed / wild honey / sweet / pure /
of such-taste / it was
and it had a taste like the sweetness of pure wild
honey.