Pali - Every few days - [C228]
Warder - Exercise 20 (page 164)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 16 of 17)
atha kho te Vaase.t.thaa sattaa rasa-pa.thavi.m
hatthehi aalumpa-kaaraka.m upakkami.msu
paribu~njitu.m.
then / indeed / these / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) /
beings / essence-earth / with hands / piece-making /
they began / to eat
Then, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, these beings began to
eat the earth-essence by breaking pieces with their
hands.
yato kho Vaase.t.thaa sattaa rasa-pa.thavi.m hatthehi
aalumpa-kaaraka.m upakkami.msu paribhu~njitu.m atha
tesa.m Vaase.t.thaa sattaana.m sayam-pabhaa
antaradhaayi.
when / indeed / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) / beings /
essence-earth / with hands / piece-making / they began
/ to eat / then / to these / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja)
/ beings / self / luminosity / disappeared
And when they did this, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, these
beings lost their self-luminosity.
sayam-pabhaaya antarahitaaya candima-suriyaa
paaturahesu.m.
self-luminosity / with the disappearance / moon-sun /
were manifest
And when their self-luminosity was lost, the sun and
moon were made manifest;
candima-suriyesu paatubhutesu, nakkhattaani
taarakaaruupaani paaturahesu.m.
with moon-sun / with the manifestation /
constellations / stars / were manifest
with the manifestation of the sun and moon,
constellations and stars were made manifest;