Pali - Every few days - [C247]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 7 of 41)
yathaa yathaa kho te Vaase.t.thaa sattaa
bhuumi-pappa.taka.m paribhu~njantaa ta.m-bhakkhaa
tad-aahaaraa cira.m diigha.m addhaana.m a.t.tha.msu,
in as much as / indeed / these / Vasettha (and
Bharadvaja) / beings / earth-fungus / relishing /
this-feeding on / that-food / for a long time / long
period / they remained
And, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, as these beings remained
relishing this earth-fungus and feeding on it as their
food for a very long time,
tathaa tathaa tesa.m sattaana.m bhiyyoso mattaaya
kharatta~n cÂ’eva kaayasmi.m okkami,
va.n.na-veva.n.nataa ca pa~n~naayittha.
just so / to these / to the beings / more / by measure
/ roughness / and / just / in the body / developed /
colour-discolouration / and / were discerned
thus an even greater measure of coarseness developed
in their bodies and good and bad-looking appeared.