Dear Yong Peng,

In many of your solutions for Ex. 21, I have a problem with your
classification of avyayiibhaava compounds. For example, in the set
below, you have classified all the following as A compounds:

> paraabhavo = paraa-bhavo [A]
> duranubodha.m = du-r-anubodha [A]
> abhidhamma.m = abhi-dhamma [A]
> upanagara.m = upa-nagara [A]
> pa.tiraajaa = pa.ti-raajaa [A]
> niraahaara = ni-r-aahaara [A]

Warder on pp.255-6 says that Avyayiibhaava cpds are used as adverbs
and are always indeclinable. (In fact avyayiibhaava means
"indeclinable-nature".)

I think all the above, which are declinable and function as nouns or
adjectives, should be classified as Kammadharaaya. Could Narada have
made a mistake in his chapter where he does indeed include
"upanagara.m" as one of his examples for an A compound? Perhaps,
scholars disagree on this classifiacation. Any comments from the more
learned members of the group?

Note, in # 11 below, yathaabala.m (= yathaa-bala [A]) clearly does
function as an indeclinable adverb, so is correctly classified A.

With metta,
John

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:
> An Elementary Pali Course
> Exercise 21-A: Translate into English.
>
> Dear friends, please help to construct sentence #10. Thanks.
>
> 9. Senaapatiputto anupubbena tassa ra.t.the senaapati ahosi.
> general's son / in course of time / his / in country /
> general / became
> In the course of time, the general's son became the general
> in his country.
>
> senaapatiputto = senaapatissa-putto [T]
> anupubba.m = anu-pubba [A]
>
> 10. "Iti h'eta.m vijaanaahi pa.thamo so paraabhavo."
> thus / indeed-this / may (you) learn / first / he / ruin
>
> paraabhavo = paraa-bhavo [A]
>
> 11. Duranubodha.m abhidhamma.m yathaabala.m pa.n.ditaa-sotuuna.m
> desetu.m va.t.tati*.
> difficult to understand / higher Doctrine /
> according to strength / to wise hearers / to preach / it is fit
> It is fit to preach to the wise hearers according to (their)
> strength the higher Doctrine (which is) difficult to understand.
>
> duranubodha.m = du-r-anubodha [A]
> abhidhamma.m = abhi-dhamma [A]
> yathaabala.m = yathaa-bala [A]
>
> 12. Uparaajaa pa.tiraajaana.m abhibhavitu.m upanagara.m gato.
> viceroy / hostile kings / to overcome / [to] suburb / is gone
> The viceroy is gone to the suburb to overcome the hostile kings.
>
> upanagara.m = upa-nagara [A]
> pa.tiraajaa = pa.ti-raajaa [A]
>
> 13. Sattasattaaha.m so niraahaaro'va vane vasi.
> seven-seven-day / he / without food-so / in forest / lived
> So he lived seven weeks in the forest without food.
>
> niraahaara = ni-r-aahaara [A]
>
> * va.t.tati = it is fit
>
> [A]vyayiibhaava
> [B]ahubbiihi
> [D]vanda
> [K]ammadhaaraya {[n]umerical}
> [T]appurisa
>
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.