Pali - Every few days - [C266]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 26 of 41)
tesa.m no amhaaka.m kadaaci karahaci diighassa addhuno
accayena rasa-pa.thavii udakasmi.m samataani.
for them / us / for us / at any time / at some time /
of long / time / after the lapse of / essence- earth /
on the water / evenness
And at some time for us after a long period of time,
earth-essence spread evenly over the water.
saa ahosi va.n.na-sampannaa gandha-sampannaa
rasa-sampannaa.
it / was / colour-endowed / smell-endowed /
taste-endowed /
It was endowed with colour, smell, and taste.
te maya.m rasa-pa.thavi.m hatthehi aalumpa-kaaraka.m
upakkamimha paribhu~njitu.m,
they / we / essence-earth / with hands / piece-making
/ we began / to eat
We began to eat the earth-essence by breaking pieces
with our hands,
tesa.m no rasa-pa.thavi.m hatthehi aalumpa-kaaraka.m
upakkamata.m paribhu~njitu.m sayam-pabhaa
antaradhaayi.
to them / to us / essence-earth / with hands /
piece-making / began / to eat / self-luminosity /
disappeared
and when we did this, our self-luminosity disappeared.