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The New Pali Course Part III (1950)
Prof. A. P. Buddhadatta Maha Nayaka Thera

Chapter VII Definition of the Indeclinables

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143. bhiiyoso-mattaaya, still more; more and more

See no. 127 for an example.

YP: #127 can be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/
message/14300
YP: However, I do not see any example for bhiiyoso-mattaaya

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N: I do not see it. Only this in PED: bhiiyoso only in compounds with
mattaaya. Matta is amount, measure, but here it may be untranslated:
bhiyyoso mattaaya: still more.

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148. maa is a prohibitive particle

"Maa h'eva Vipassii kumaaro agaarasmaa anagaariya.m pabbaji." [D.ii,27]

We must not have Prince Vipassii going forth from the house into the
homeless state.

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N: We must not let Prince Vipassii go forth from the home into the
homeless life.

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149. micchaa, wrong; false; wrongly

(a) "Micchaa pa.nihita.m citta.m
Paapiya.m na.m tato kare." [Dhp.v.43]

An ill-directed mind will make him worse.

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N: (Whatever [harm] a foe may do to a foe, or a hater to a hater), an
ill-directed mind can do one far greater (harm).

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149 (b) "Yathaa nemittakaana.m braahma.naana.m micchaa assa
vacana.m." [D.ii,28]

In a way that the words of the brahman soothsayers may become false.

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N: We must not let what the brahmin soothsayers spoke of come true
(PTS). (D. II, 25).

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Nina.










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