Dear Jim,
thank you. What you explain is also very useful for me. Any piece of advice
is much appreciated,
Nina.
op 29-07-2005 16:38 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:

>
> I agree that this is a pronoun but with the meaning "whatever"
> instead of "it". The "ya.m" qualifies "a~n~naa.na.m" in each of its
> four occurrences in the sentence but omitted in the last three due to
> ellipsis. Your sentence is incomplete without the concluding main
> clause "aya.m vuccati bhikkhave avijjaa". What you have is a chain of
> four relative clauses: