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

> Dear friends,
>
> can someone kindly explain why 'arahato' is in the
> Genitive case in the
> sentence below. Many thanks.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:
>
> > 16. "Namo tassa Bhagavato, arahato
> sammaa-sambuddhassa."

Same with "bhagavato" and "buddhassa".

I think it is actually dative. Pali (unlike Sanskrit,
I think) has two sets of dative forms, one of which is
identical with the genitive. If "namo" must be
followed by dative, one can say either "namo
buddhaaya" or "namo buddhassa".

Gunnar


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