Dear Ven. Yuttadhammo, Gunnar and friends,

thanks. I must have overlooked something yesterday.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar Gällmo wrote:

> can someone kindly explain why 'arahato' is in the
> Genitive case in the sentence below. Many thanks.

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".