Dear Piya and Pali friends,

> Since the passage you are translating, you can use nimitta as "sense-object" which is canonical usage.

It is not a canonical usage.

It's unbelievable how all discussions of this term in this group, with
citations from the Pali canon, were fruitlessa and forgotten.

Well, for those with eyes open I'll give references to the August 14-24,
2004 threads:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/messages/5244
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5244
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5257
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5259
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5265
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5269
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5273
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/5369

Regards, Dmytro