Re: Reply to Yong Peng as concerns the transitivity in Pali

Venerable Bhante Pandita,
Thank you, it becomes clearer.
op 06-03-2005 21:52 schreef Ven. Pandita op ashinpan@...:

> But you are right. It is not always transitive. For instance, in the
> following sentence:
> ". . . idha gaccha, amutraagaccha . . ." (D-1-8)
> Trs.: . . . Go to this place; come to that place . . .
>
> In the above example, the destination of movement is used in locative.
> (I think this must be the older language, for, such a usage is much more
> common in Classical Sanskrit) Then there would be nothing imaginable
> left to be an object for the verb "gaccha". In such sentences, the root
> gam is intransitive.

N: PED says for amutra: it is an adverb. But as you say, it is a more
ancient language.
With respect,
Nina.