Dear Yuttodhamma,
The last few emails concerning the Pali compounds was incredably informative. You seem to be quite familiar working with the Pali language using its own terminalogy instead of western grammatical labels.
Because you seem to be so familiar with pali from the inside, I was wondering if you might know of how pali is used to express such things as please and thankyou, hello and goodbye. Warder seems talk briefly about these expressions. Such as welcome, "svagato bhagavato hotu" . Warder also says that a greeting might be constructed using bhavo and the imperative of "as". Would this be constructed as "bhavo satu"? Any hints would be appreciated.

John Pruitt


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