Dear Yong Peng, Ven. Dhammanando and all,

In this sentence using the copulative 'hoti' would be very rare.
Given that in the Pali-to-English exercises in this same chapter had a
very similar example (see 21-A, #15):
15. "Attaa hi kira duddamo."
self / indeed / truly / difficult to tame
"Indeed self truly (is) difficult to tame."

I would suggest here:
mana.m hi kira duddama.m
or mano hi kira duddamo)

With metta,
John

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:
> Dear Ven. Dhammanando and friends,
>
> thanks, Bhante. I shall include both variants in the solutions.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, dhammanando_bhikkhu wrote:
>
> > 13. The mind is indeed difficult to tame.
> > mana.m / hoti / hi / duddamo
> > Mana.m hi duddamo hoti.
>
> Mana can be either masc. or neut. If masculine, the passage should
> read:
>
> mano hi duddamo hoti
>
> If neuter, then:
>
> mana.m hi duddama.m hoti