Dear Nina,

my apologies for this late reply. I am back in Singapore for the
Chinese New Year holidays since Monday, and have been busy shopping,
visiting family and friends, and catching up on some other stuff. I
got to watch CNN live telecast of United States President Bush's final
State of the Union Address on Tuesday, and was glad to hear him
mentioned Burma (once). Hopefully, he will do something to improve the
situation in Burma before his presidential term ends this year.

The reference paragraph is from the first book, which is available
here: http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/synthesis/pali1.10.cdv

I am currently posting the second book, or Part II, to the list. As
mentioned sometimes earlier, there is also a Part III, which discusses
advance topics but there is no exercises in the book. Since I am now
in Singapore, and the book is sitting on my shelf, I shall provide a
quick overview of its contents, as follows:

The book deals with advance topics in Pali, and the chapters vary very
much in length. Chapter 1 deals with uncommon word forms, such as
saa, kara, mahaaraaja, santa, etc. Chapters II to VI are short
chapters on verbs, syntax of nouns, and sentence analysis. Chapter VII
contains a list of indeclinables and their definitions. Chapter IX
explains idioms and antithetics.

metta,
Yong Peng.

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

Just the first paras I did not get. The other paras with examples are
clear. Which book do you refer to? Sorry, I missed it.

> The causal suffixes and the method of forming causal verbs are given
in §74 of the First Book.