Dear AL,

In my opinion both translations are correct. The difference is in interpretation of the compound word (samaasa) as "adjectival compound" (kammadhaaraya) in the first case or as a "case compound" (tappurisa) in the second one (you can see the explanation of the compounds in Lesson XX of Ven. Naarada Thera's "Elementary Pali Course"). Which would be in a concrete instance should be infered from the context.
But still I am not very skilled in Pali too.

With metta,
Ardavarz

--- On Wed, 2/11/09, arunlikhati <arun.likhati@...> wrote:
From: arunlikhati <arun.likhati@...>
Subject: [Pali] Translation of aryiasaavaka
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 5:00 AM












Hello,



First I want to say how thankful I am that this list exists and to all you contributors who've

put together such awesome materials. I read the emails daily and have been working (very,

very slowly) through the Pali exercises.



I have a quick question about the translation of "ariyasaavaka" . Bhikkhu Bodhi and

Nyanaponika Thero translate this as "noble disciple", while Thanissaro Bhikkhu and the PTS

translate this as "disciple of the noble ones". I understand that these are not mutually

exclusive translations, but one is certainly more specific than the other. I'm curious to hear

what you have to say.



I don't have a bias one way or another.



Metta,

AL


































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