From: Jon Fernquest
Message: 12299
Date: 2008-03-03
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "mahipaliha" <mahipal6@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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
>