Dear Jim,
Pl. see translation and notes below.

>
>
> > Here is the sentence from Dhp-a III 128:
>
> Yasmaa jaraabyaadhimara.namissataaya jaati naamesaa punappuna.m
> upagantu.m dukkhaa,
>

Trsl. Because it is a suffering to undergo this (process) called (naama)
birth again and again, due to it being mixed up (missataaya or missattaaya)
with ageing, disease and death

> < na ca saa tasmi.m adi.t.the nivattati; tasmaa ta.m
> gavesanto sandhaavissanti attho.
>

And it (i.e., jaati) does not cease as long as he (the house-builder) has
not been seen. The meaning is that (therefore) I travelled on
(sandhaavissa.m), looking for him.

>
> .
> <Dukkhaa jaati punappunanti ida.m gahakaarakagavesanassa
> kaara.navacana.m.
>

This (line) "dukkhaa jaati punappuna.m" is a statement (vacana.m) of the
reason (kaara.na) for seeking the house-builder.

<The reading with -missitaaya (past participle) is troublesome

>
>

It is..The editions of the DhpA pulished in Sri Lanka have missattaya.

> (Skt mi'sratva: the fact of being mixed). The PTS reading missitaaya I think
> is a corruption of missataaya, instr sg of missataa which would be
> an abstract noun parralel to missatta. (Skt form would be mi'srataa.)
> Either missatta or missataa would make sense in the context.
>




> <. I don't know what to make of "naama".
>


>
> It can be translated as "called".
>

>
> <The next part really has me stumped: "na ca saa tasmi.m adi.t.the
> nivattati;" I cannot make any syntactical sense of it. Is "tasmi.m
> adi.t.the" a locative absolute?
>


>
> It is a locative absolute.Meaning is "when (or as long as) 'he' has not
> been seen". Who is this 'he'? It is the same one who has been declared to
> have been seen in the line "gahakaaraka, di.t.tho'si". (Commentary says the
> house is the sense of self and ignorance is the builder of it.)
>


> 'saa' refers to 'jaati'.
>

Hope this would clear up most of the doubts. This is similar to the way
this part of the Commentary was translated in our Dhp text.

Best regards.

Mahinda

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