Pali - Every few days - [C282]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 3 (Part 1 of 5)
bhuutapubba.m imasmi.m yeva bhikkhu-sanghe
a~n~natarassa bhikkhuno eva.m cetaso parivitakko
udapaadi:
in the past / in this / just / monk-community / of a
certain / monk / thus / in the mind / thought / arose
In the past, in just this community of monks, a
thought arose in the mind of a certain monk:
kattha nu kho ime cattaaro mahaabhuutaa aparisesaa
nirujjhanti, seyyathiida.m pa.thavii-dhaatu
aapo-dhaatu tejo-dhaatu vaayo-dhaatuu ti.
where / do / indeed / these / four / great elements /
without remainder / cease / namely / earth-element /
water-element / fire-element / air-element /
(end-quote)
Indeed, where do these four great elements, that is,
the earth, water, fire, and air elements, cease
without remainder?
atha kho so bhikkhu tathaaruupa.m samaadhi.m
samaapajji yathaa samaahite citte deva-yaaniyo maggo
paaturahosi.
then / indeed / this / monk / such / concentration /
attained / as / in concentrated / mind / deva-leading
to / path / appeared
Then this monk attained such a level of concentration
that through his concentrated mind a path leading to
the devas appeared.