Pali - Every few days - [C245]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 5 of 41)
atha kho tesa.m Vaase.t.thaa sattaana.m rasaaya
pathaviyaa antarahitaaya bhuumi-pappa.tako
paaturahosi.
then / indeed / to these / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) /
beings / of the essence / of the earth / on the
disappearance / earth-fungus / was manifest
Then, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, on the disappearance of
the earth-essence, an earth fungus appeared to these
beings,
seyyathaa pi naama ahicchattako, eva.m eva.m
paaturahosi.
just as / too / indeed / mushroom / thus / was
manifest
in the same way that a mushroom appears.
so ahosi va.n.na-sampanno gandha-sampanno
rasa-sampanno.
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.no 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-assaado ahosi.
just as / too / indeed / wild honey / sweet / pure /
of such-taste / it was
and it had a taste like the sweetness of pure wild
honey.