From: Mahinda Palihawadana
Message: 12931
Date: 2008-10-13
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:52 PM, <tzungkuen@...> wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> According to A.K. Warder's grammar book, the relative pronoun should
> agree with the word it denotes in gender and number. If so why in the
> following sentence the relative pronoun is "ya.m" rather than "yo".
> Did ancient grammarians explain this before?
>
> Naahaṃ, bhikkhave, a~n~na.m ekasaddampi samanupassaami ya.m eva.m
> itthiyaa citta.m pariyaadaaya tit.t.hati yathayida.m, bhikkhave,
> purisasaddo.
>
> with much metta
>
> Tzungkuen
>
>
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