Dear Alan,


katha.m byaakaramaanaa pana maya.m vuttavaadino ceva sama.nassa
gotamassa assaama, na ca sama.na.m gotama.m abhuutena
abbhaacikkheyyaama, dhammassa caanudhamma.m byaakareyyaama, na ca koci
sahadhammiko vaadaanu v aa d o gaarayha.m .thaana.m aagaccheyyaa''ti?

This majjhima passage (M I 482) is in need of a few corrections, which I
have added above. The main difficulty is how to construe the genitives of
the first clause: sama.nassa gotamassa is syntactically dependent upon vutta
of the compound vuttavaadino n. pl. qualifying the subject of the clause
viz. mayam, which is also qualified by the present participle
byaakaramaanaa:

"How, moreover, shall we (assaama) propound (vaadino) what the ascetic
Gotama has said (vutta), when we make statements about him (byaakaramaanaa),
and not impute to him (abbhaacikkheyyaama) something false (abhuutena)
(abbhaacikkhati is constructed with instr.)." The rest is syntactically
unproblematic.
Hope this helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Ole Pind





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