Dear Stephen,

Thank you for clarifying: it is clear to me now.

I should have recalled that in Thai, bowl is "baaht".

Sadhu & sukhi,

Piya

Stephen Hodge wrote:

> Dear Piya,
>
> You wrote:
> > I am writing this on the fly without citations: I think patra is Pali
> > Patta
> > which means "bowl". Shouldn't it is parna (Pali pa.n.na) ?
>
> No. "Patra" is correct in Sanskrit in the sense of a "leaf" etc. The
> Sanskrit for "bowl" is "paatra", but this becomes "patta" in Pali, losing
> the long vowel due to Pali phonological rules. This is confusing because
> "patra" (leaf) also becomes "patta" !
>
> Best wishes,
> Stephen Hodge
>
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