--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <pali.smith@...> wrote:

>
> Dear friends,
>
> I have very much exhausted all my available resources while trying

to

> find the word for 'ride' in Pali. I would appreciate if someone can
> provide assistance with translating "riding on the elephant" into
> Pali. Thank you.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> > 7. "They always bring out the tooth of Buddha in the middle of

the

> > third month. Ten days beforehand, the king magnificently

caparisons a

> > great elephant, and commissions a man... to clothe himself in

royal

> > apparel, and, riding on the elephant, to sound a drum." [Fa-hian]

How about: (hatthi.m) aaruhitvaa (bheri.m vaadetu.m purisa.m
uyyojeti)?

Mahipaliha