Re: vitakkehi khajjasi - eaten by your thoughts (Sn 9:11)

I am a beginner to Pali. I am memorizing words and khadati means eats,chews,
bites.

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3.65

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Phil <philco777@...> wrote:

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> Dear Group
>
> I have been studying the vanasamyutta (SN 9) in Pali. I find the
> short suttas in which meditating bhikkhus are chastized by concerned
> devata to be very inspiring, and they are a nice short length for a
> Pali beginner to have a look at some texts.
>
> I wanted to know more about the expressesion khajjasi. In Bhikkhu
> Bodhi's notes, he writes "I read the verb as khajjasi (rather than)
> majjasi, "intoxicated with."
>
> I don't know enough yet about conjugations and declinations(?)
> to be able to look up words on the online dictionary yet - I keep
> shooting blanks.
>
> Could anyone tell me the root form of khajjasi, and anything about
> it? Bhikkhu Bodhi uses "eaten" by your thoughts, but when I looked
> up "eat" in English/Pali, I didn't see anything that looked like
> khajjasi.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Phil
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