Pali - Every few days - [C270]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 30 of 41)
bhuumi-pappa.take antarahite badaalataa paaturahosi.
earth-fungus / on the disappearance / creeper /
appeared
And on the disappearance of the earth-fungus a creeper
appeared.
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 badaalata.m upakkamimha paribhu~njitu.m.
those / we / creeper / we began / to eat
and we began to eat the creeper,
te maya.m ta.m paribhu~njantaa tam-bhakkhaa
tad-aahaaraa cira.m diigham addhaana.m a.t.thamhaa.
those / we / this / relishing / this-feeding on /
this-food / for a long time / long period / we
remained
and relishing it we remained feeding on this food for
a very long time.
tesa.m no paapakaana.m ~neva akusalaana.m dhammaana.m
paatubhaavaa badaalataa antaradhaayi.
to those / to us / of evil / also / of unwholesome /
of things / appearance / creeper / disappearance
And on account of the evil, unwholesome things among
us, the creeper disappeared.