Pali - Every few days - [C248]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 8 of 41)
ek ida.m sattaa va.n.navanto honti, ekida.m sattaa
dubba.n.naa.
some / this / beings / beautiful / were / some / this
/ beings / ugly
Some of the beings were beautiful and others ugly,
tattha ye te sattaa va.n.navanto, te dubba.n.ne satte
atima~n~nanti.
there / who-ever / beings / beautiful / these / ugly /
beings / they despise
and those beings that were beautiful despised the ugly
ones, thinking,
mayam etehi va.n.navantataraa, amheh ete
dubba.n.nataraa ti.
we / than these / more beautiful / than us / these /
uglier / (end-quote)
We are more beautiful than them; they are uglier than
us.
[It seems not much changes thousands of years later!]