Dear Yong Peng,
I am sorry to say that you should know about this long
time ago.There are a lot of strange aorist in
different grammar texts.Just buy A.B.Buddhadatta pali
book 3 to look for some more aorist where he copied
from different texts.Your problem is mainly due to
lacking insight into all pali grammar text books-big
or small.Your cannot learn pali by just looking at
some modern pali manual.


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

>
>
> Dear Ven. Pandita, Alex, Dmytro, Nina and friends,
>
> I keep important questions raised at the back of my
> mind. It is getting
> harder to trace messages in the archive given the
> volume of exchanges
> we are having, but I think it is nonetheless a good
> sign.
>
> Allow me to share a very recent experience of mine.
> I am currently
> preparing a language guide for Ven. Narada's text.
> And I am at the
> chapter on the Aorist. To double-check the tables, I
> compared with the
> guide for Pali Primer, and I was almost shocked to
> death! The aorist
> conjugations are almost entirely different in both
> texts. Next, I found
> the forms given in Warder's and Gair&Karuatillake
> are closer to Pali
> Primer than Narada's. I almost assumed there is some
> serious typo
> spread throughout the book until I looked at
> Duroiselle's grammar. I
> discovered that Ven. Narada actually introduced
> aorist forms that are
> legitimate but the other authors chose to leave out,
> and vice versa!
>
> So, I think a good grammar is necessary in times of
> need like this.
>
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, alexgenaud wrote:
>
> are grammatical rules to be taken as generalizations
> or consistent
> rules? For example, one can find the declensions of
> nara and other
> words ending in -a in any basic grammar book. Can
> one assume that these
> rules apply to ALL (or just most) masculine nouns
> ending in -a?
>
>
>
>
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