Dear Nina

You wrote:

> N: Footnote 3: kamma.m kata.m purisena: Some difficulty to understand this. I think that the form kamma.m is neutre and therefore it can be subject or object.

Yes. But if it were the object, it would mean that the action performs itself, and "purisena" would have made no sense. If we check the context in this way, "kammaṃ" is clearly the active object.

> Indeclinables: what place should these be given? In our Pali
> exercises at the moment they are dealt with all the time.

They are nouns that "cannot be declined", i.e., do not change their forms. So their cases must be inferred from the context. For example:

1. puriso puttena saha gacchati.(= The man goes together with the son.)

puttena ---> saha (sociative-explicit relation)
saha ---> gacchati (adverbial relation)

Then we can interpret "saha" as having acc. or ins. case since only two these cases have the adverbial relation.

2. Purison ca putto ca gacchanti.

Here two "ca" show that "puriso" and "putto" refer to different entities as well as that they are the active subjects of "gacchanti". Otherwise there is no need for them to be related to any other word. Then we interpret two "ca"s as having the nominative case just to be legal words.

with metta

Ven. Pandita