Pali - Every few days - [C265]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 25 of 41)
atha kho te Vaase.t.thaa sattaa sannipati.msu
sannipatitvaa anutthuni.msu paapakaa vata bho dhammaa
sattesu paatubhuutaa,
then / indeed / these / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) /
beings / they assembled / having assembled / they
lamented / evil / alas! / friend / things / among
beings / appeared
Then, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, these beings assembled
and lamented, Alas! Evil things have appeared among
us.
maya.m hi pubbe mano-mayaa ahumhaa piitibhakkhaa
saya.m-pabhaa antalikkha-caraa subha-.t.thaayino,
cira.m diigham addhaana.m a.t.thamhaa.
we / for / formerly / mind-made / we were /
rapture-feeding / self-luminous / sky-moving /
lustre-remaining / for a long time / long / period /
we stayed
For formerly we were mind-made, feeding on rapture,
self-luminous, moving through the sky, lustrous, and
we stayed that way for a very long time.