Dear Yong Peng,
Op 25-mei-2011, om 14:52 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven:

> * Feel free to try translating the Pali sentences below. *
> (5) "Atha te devii pucchi: Ki.m kaara.naa aagatatthaati?"

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N: Then the devas asked: why have you come?

Not sure about aagatatthaa. The ending -atthaa points to a perfect
tense?
Ki.m kaara.naa: by reason of what, why.
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> Examples Group 15
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> Define the various clauses and phrases of the following:-
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> 1. "Ajaatasattu-kumaaro Devadattassa Gayaasiise vihaara.m
> kaaretvaa... divase divase pa~ncathaalipaaka-sataani
> abhihari." (Mahilaamukha) [J.i,185-8]

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N: (Jaataka 26): Prince Ajaatasattu, after having a monastery built
for Devadatta at Gaaya-siisa, brought to him every day 500 pots of rice.

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> 1. Pa~nca...abhihari, he brought 500 pots of rice. (One thaalipaaka
> contains food enough for ten persons.)
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Nina.



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