From: Ong Yong Peng
Message: 11222
Date: 2007-04-18
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, natalie_indeed wrote:
I'm working on _A Pali Primer_ by Lily de Silva, and I'm having
trouble distinguishing between the dative (-aaya/ssa) and the genitive
(-ssa) cases in some situations. For example, I can see two possible
translations for this sentence:
Va.nijaana.m assaa kassakassa gaama.m dhaavanti.
The merchants' horses run to the farmer's village.
OR
The merchants' horses run to the village for the farmer.