Hi Florent,

Cone's A Dictionary of Pali lists antaraa (in the prepositional sense
'between') as governing both genitive and accusative. So I guess both
of your sources were right.

best regards,

/Rett

>
>
>I am working on the following sentence:
>Te gehassa ca rukkhassa ca antaraa kii.li.msu.
>
>which I translated by :
>They played between the house and the tree.
>
>My book (The New Pali Course) doesn't mention which case antaraa
>governs but by looking at the
>endings I guessed it should be dative or genitive.
>
>However according to Duroiselle (538 (Vii)) antaraa governs the accusative.
>
>So is the sentence in my book wrong and should it rather be: Te
>geha.m ca rukkha.m ca antaraa
>kii.li.msu?