> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar Gällmo wrote:
>
> In any case, according to the Dhammapada, begging alone is not enough
> to make a bhikkhu in the Buddhist sense of the word (na tena bhikkhu
> hoti yaavataa bhikkhate pare).
>

Hello friends.
an intressting aspect may also comnnect us again to the Middle east
and the Semitic, Pre-Christian cultures.

the letters later used in India were undoubtly influenced by the
Aramaic Hebrew letters.
the word Asura certainly found it's origin in the persian Ahura,
logical enough, the enemies god is ones devil.
A look at a more far fetched examples, but striking ones, I think,
both roots of the important words Bhikkhu and Dhuka
have dual meaning in Hebrew, which may yield the exact meaning

1. the root B.K.S. (Bet Koof Shin)
to ask, to ask for, to beg,
but also to search
as in Bikush-Emet= truth seeking.


2. D.CK.A (Daled Chaf Alef)
as Dikaon = depression = Domanassa,
but also
as Dikui = oppression (by one's very existance) = Seyyatidam,
pancupadanakandaa dukham

Metta
Jothiko Bhikkhu