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

Chapter III Passive Forms

Glossary Group 14

1. At that sacrifice, O Brahman, neither were any oxen slain; neither rams nor goats were put to death. No trees were cut down to be used as sacrificial posts, no Kusa-grass was mown to strew around the posts.

Barihisa is another name for Kusa-grass.

2. Catubba.n.naa, people of the four castes or colours. The four castes are: Khattiyaa (=warriors), Braahma.naa (=brahmans or the priest class), Vessaa (=tradesmen and husbandmen), and Suddaa (=the servants of the above three classes).

3. Paramparaagata.m, handed down by tradition.

4. The world is led by thought; by thought it is dragged about.

5. "Where divers goats and sheep and kine are slain,
Never to such a rite as that repair
The noble seers who walk the perfect way." [K.S.i,103]

6. Whatever thing is brought out and secured from a house which is on fire, it becomes useful to the owner; but not so the things that are burnt in it.

ref: http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/synthesis/pali3.00.cdv

(to be continued...)