Re: Pali Day by Day 3/07/2005 [D123]

--- Ong Yong Peng <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:

>
> Dear Gunnar and friends,
>
> thanks for the correction. It is a syntax error I
> committed in the
> English translation.
>
> Ida.m mayha.m hotu.
> May this be mine. (Imperative)
>
> When you have "This should be mine", do you mean the
> potential
> particple, which, as I found on PED, should be
> hotabba.m or
> bhavitabba.m. Please advise. Thanks.

Oh, I didn't think as far as that; I just tried to
find a couple of alternative English expressions for
the imperative/volitive (whatever you like to call
it). "May" is OK, I think.

Gunnar


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