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Sendt: 25. august 2005 16:43
Til: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Emne: Re: [Pali] anutiire mahiyaa samaanavaaso

Dear Gunnar,

KR Norman has something interesting (philologically) to say. Please see his
"The
Dhaniya-sutta of the Suttai-nipaata" (Collected Works IV:148).

He thinks that samaana,vaaso should read samaasa,vaaso both meaning "staying
together" but "samaasa" he says could also mean "six months" etc.

I regard this as a next to impossible suggestion. Sa in the sense of six
only occurs in post-canonical literature, a backformation from Sanskrit
.sa.s In the canon six is invariably cha.
What is wrong with samaanavaaso, living in the same abode (or he like),
i.e., not forced to set up a new abode for each night.

Ole Pind

See also the notes in his annotated translation of Sn. He has detailed
philological
notes there. He is however a poor source of anything spiritual (and does not
boast
to, anyway).

Sukhi

Piya

Gunnar Gällmo wrote:

> In the first stanza of the Dhaniyasutta (18th stanza
> of the Suttanipaata), how should the word
> "samaanavaaso" be analyzed? I suppose that "sa" is
> "with", and that the verb "vasati" is somewhere in the
> following syllables, but that is about as far as I
> have got.
>
> Thanissaro translates the line by "I live with my
> people along the banks of the Mahi", and Nyanaponika
> by "Am Mahi-Ufer wohne ich gesellt den Meinen"; but I
> haven't been able to find this meaning of "maana" in
> the PTS dictionary.
>
> Gunnar
>
> gunnargallmo@...
>
>
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