Pali - Every few days - [C284]
Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
Passages for Reading 3 (Part 3 of 5)
eva.m vutte Caatu-mahaa-raajikaa devaa ta.m bhikkhu.m
etad avocu.m:
thus / said / four-great-kings / devas / this / monk /
thus / said
When this was said, the devas of the Four Great Kings
replied to this monk:
mayam pi kho, bhikkhu, na jaanaama yatth ime cattaaro
mahaabhuutaa aparisesaa nirujjhanti, seyyathiida.m
pa.thavii-dhaatu aapo-dhaatu tejo-dhaatu
vaayo-dhaatuu.
we / too / indeed / monk / not / we know / where /
these / four / great elements / without remainder /
cease / namely / earth-element / water-element /
fire-element / air-element
Monk, we also do not know where these four great
elements, that is, the earth, water, fire, and air
elements, cease without remainder.
atthi kho bhikkhu cattaaro Mahaaraajaa amhehi
abhikkanta-taraa ca pa.niitataraa ca.
there are / indeed / monk / four / great kings / than
us / advanced-more / and / excellent-more / and
There are, monk, the Four Great Kings, who are more
advanced and excellent than us.
te kho eva.m jaaneyyu.m, yatth ime cattaaro
mahaabhuutaa aparisesaa nirujjhanti seyyathiida.m
pa.thavii-dhaatu aapo-dhaatu tejo-dhaatu vaayo-dhaatuu
ti.
they / indeed / thus / might know / where / these /
four / great elements / without remainder / cease /
namely / earth-element / water-element / fire-element
/ air-element / (end-quote)
Indeed they might know where these four great
elements, that is, the earth, water, fire, and air
elements, cease without remainder.