Re: Pali Day by Day G041 Question + Cosmic Smile

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "flrobert2000" <flrobert2000@...> wrote:

>
> Dear Mahinda and Jim,



> So we find the passive root bajjha in the imperative both in the
> parassapada form (but with a lengthened uu) and in the attanopada
> form.

Dear Florent,

The root is not bajjha. Bajjha is the stem, i.e., root+ conjugational
sign. Root is badh- and conj. sgn is -ya-. That will give badhya-
(which is how we find it in Skt. But the Skt) dhya- changes into -
jjha- in Pali.

>I have been trying to find out which variety of meter it is by
>looking at the lengths of the syllables,

OK. The metre is Indravajraa and it has 11 syllabless.

>Here is what I found out:
> LLS LLS SLS LS

This Indravajraa. In practice however the last two may be LS or LL. I
have given the reason for this in the mail to Jim sent a while ago.

> Could you please confirm if this is right? It doesn't seem to fit
> though any of the 11 varieties given for the tu.t.thubbha.m meter

p335

> of Duroiselle's grammar. Where did I do a mistake?

I think it is in assuming that the metre here would be inflexible. It
is not. Again, pl. read the other message.Thanks.
Mahinda

>
> Florent
>
> PS: What does "caati" mean here in the commentary?
>