Dear Nina,

thanks. This New Pali Course Part II is the work of the late
Buddhadatta Thera, as indicated in the beginning of each post. [Just
in case someone gets the wrong idea. :-)]

I agree the explanation on 'mahanta' and 'na' (negation) is very clear
and useful. In fact, I have been following these points (§45 and §47)
in all our translation exercises.

Quoting An Elementary Pali Course (Ven. Narada),

A Kammadhaaraya (Adjectival Compound) is that which is formed by
combining a substantive with an adjective, or a noun in apposition, or
an indeclinable used in an adjectival sense, as its prior member.

Then, in an earlier post,

§43. The qualifying word is generally placed first; but in some
cases it comes last.

Examples can be found in the same post:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/11643

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom wrote:

I am glad you present the part about the Kammadhaaraya compounds and
the digu compounds. The first kind always causes me trouble to
understand, even if I look up Warder. The examples with the negation
is clear. But could you say something in general what a Kammadhaaraya
compound is and what it exactly contains?

Perhaps more examples would help.

> In Kammadhaaraya, the adjective "mahanta" becomes "mahaa". If it
> is followed by a double consonant it becomes "maha".