Re: Translation of aryiasaavaka

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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