Yong Peng,

I wonder if "humanity" or "humanness" fit better with manussatta.m.
Manhood normally refers to the manly faculty in a human being, like "the boy reached
manhood after he has gone through the rites of passage".

Sukhi

Piya

Ong Yong Peng wrote:

> Dear Ven. Dhammanando and friends,
>
> Bhante, thanks for puttimaa. For manussattam, Ven. Narada has
> manhood, so I will include yours as an alternate answer.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, dhammanando_bhikkhu wrote:
>
> 2. "Socati puttehi puttimaa."
> grieves / because of sons / he who has sons
> He who has sons grieves because of the sons.
>
> The word 'puttimaa' is nominative (inflected like gu.navaa).
> 'Puttehi' is best taken as an ablative of cause.
>
> > 5. Manussattam'pi labhitvaa kasmaa tumhe pu~n~na.m na karotha?
> > Having also reached manhood, why do you not do good?
>
> I suggest 'having attained the human state' for manussataa labhitvaa.
> It means being born as a human, whereas 'reaching manhood' means
> becoming an adult.
>
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