Pali - Every few days - [C250]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 10 of 41)
saa ahosi va.n.na-sampannaa gandha-sampannaa
rasa-sampannaa.
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.naa 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-assaadaa 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.