Pali - Every few days - [C283]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 3 (Part 2 of 5)
atha kho so bhikkhu yena Caatu-mahaa-raajikaa devaa
ten upasankami, upasankamitvaa Caatu-mahaa-raajike
deve etad avoca:
then / indeed / this / monk / towards /
four-great-kings / devas / that way / he approached /
having approached / to the fourgreat-kings / devas /
this / he said
Then, this monk approached the devas of the Four Great
Kings and, drawing near, he said to them:
kattha nu kho aavuso ime cattaaro mahaabhuutaa
aparisesaa nirujjhanti, seyyathiida.m pa.thavii-dhaatu
aapo-dhaatu tejo-dhaatu vaayo-dhaatuu ti.
where / do / indeed / friends / these / four / great
elements / without remainder / cease / namely /
earth-element / water-element / fire-element /
air-element / (end-quote)
Friends, where do these four great elements, that is,
the earth, water, fire, and air elements, cease
without remainder?