Dear Bryan and Nina,

just a little improvement,

niitatthanti yathaarutavasena ~naatabbattha.m: meaning should be known as per spoken word(s).

yathaa-ruta-vasena: per-sound/word-as

I think my posts are taking a while to appear on the forum, this could be due to message routing failure along the line. I hope it is temporary and limited to my area only.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

niitatthanti yathaarutavasena ~naatabbattha.m: meaning should be known as per the words.

yathaa-ruta-vasena: per-word(s)-as

> I think vasena in this case just means "because of" and yathaaruta, means "according to the sound (only)" - i. e. according to the normal meaning of the words, not requiring interpretation, according to its plain or clear meaning (see Monier Williams s.v . nitaartha)