Pali - Every few days - [C281]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 2 (Part 41 of 41)
iti kho Vaase.t.thaa evam etassa khattiya-ma.n.dalassa
poraa.nena agga~n~nena akkharena abhinibbatti ahosi.
thus / indeed / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) / thus / of
this / khattiya-circle / with ancient / with primeval
/ with expression / production / there was
Thus, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, there was the emergence
of the Khattiya class along with these ancient and
primeval expressions;
tesa.m ~neva sattaana.m ana~n~nesa.m sadisaana.m ~neva
no asadisaana.m dhammen eva no adhammena.
among these / also / of beings / not other / of like /
also / not / of unlike / righteously / just / not /
unrighteously
among these very beings, not others; like ourselves,
not unlike; righteously, not unrighteously.
dhammo hi Vaase.t.thaa se.t.tho jan etasmi.m di.t.the
c eva dhamme abhisamparaaya~n ca.
Dhamma / for / Vasettha (and Bharadvaja) / best /
generation / in this / in this very life (di.t.th eva
dhamme) / and / in the future / and
For, Vasettha and Bharadvaja, Dhamma is the very best
in this generation both in this very life and in the
future.
[D.III.86-93 xxvii.(Agga~n~na).11-21]