John Kelly wrote:

>Dear Abhinavagupta,
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>>As the suffixes clearly show in the Pali example below, only one
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>action occurs in the
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>>future.
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>I don't think the above statement is necessarily true.
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Dear all,

Regarding this issue, please have a look at this thread starting here:
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=22209&view=findpost&p=308583

There is a particularly useful post by Bhante Dhammanando that clarifies
that the absolutive/gerund can indeed refer to non-absolute past times
including future.

With metta,

Alan