From: Ong Yong Peng
Message: 9513
Date: 2005-12-05
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ole Holten Pind wrote:
> Upagacchati is tricky. While I don't think it is, I hope someone
> can confirm whether upagacchati is governed by the Ablative?
Upagacchati is constructed with nouns ending in the ablative affix to
< Sanskrit tas. This particular construction means to regard
(upagacchati) X as Y (+ -to). In the present case the clause means to
regard the sankhaaras as anicca. This type of construction is
occasionally met with in the Pali canon. Notice also that ya.m (that)
entails the optative or potential form upagaccheyya correspondng to
Sanskrit yat (that) constructed with optative.