Dear Yong Peng,
op 07-06-2005 00:58 schreef Ong Yong Peng op yongpeng.ong@...:

> taking another step in the direction of the third proposed solution,
> I like to refine it from
>
> "Iti h'eta.m vijaanaahi pa.thamo so paraabhavo."
> Thus, may you, he who is first (and) defeat, learn this indeed.
>
> to
>
> "Iti h'eta.m vijaanaahi pa.thamo so paraabhavo."
> Thus, may you, the first one to fail, learn this indeed.

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N: The first option was:

>

Y.P. "Iti h'eta.m vijaanaahi pa.thamo so paraabhavo."

> Thus you may indeed learn this first: so paraabhavo.
>
> However, I think 'pa.thamo' applies to 'so', as in, "pa.thamo so".

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N: I would rather continue with this. There may be a summing up of different
ruins of defeats, and this is the first one. I am inclined to take together:
pa.thamo so paraabhavo. This is the first defeat.
I would take together: eta.m vijaanaahi. Learn this.
Ven. Pandita explained before, that there are sentences where something is
not mentioned or omitted. But it is hard for us to find out.
Nina.