Dear Bryan,
I think you mean of the Khuddakapaa.tha, and this is translated PTS
Minor readings, and the page number is p. 172. The passage you quote
is on p. 186 (below).
Op 8-dec-2011, om 13:15 heeft Bryan Levman het volgende geschreven:

> the commentary on the Ratanasutta of the SuttaNipaata (p.172):
>
> seyyathida.m ra~n~no cakkavattissacakkaratana.m
> uppajjatiindaniilama.nimayanaabhi
>
> sattaratanamayasahassaara.m pavaa.lamayanemi,
> rattasuva.n.namayasandhi, yassadasanna.m
>
> dasanna.m araana.m uparieka.m mu.n.daara.m hotivaata.m gahetvaa
> saddakara.nattha.m,
>
> yenakatosaddosukusalappataa.litapa~nca"ngikatuuriyasaddoviyahoti
>
> (The Tathaagata is being compared to a jewel of the highest value,
> which of course, he is superior to)
>
> I tentatively translate as:
>
> namely the jewel
> (treasure) of the wheel of a universal (wheel-turning) monarch
> arises, the
> navel of which is made of sapphires, a thousand spokes are made of
> the seven
> jewels, the rim of the wheel is made of coral, the link [axle?] is
> made of
> burnished gold, the appearance of the wheel above the spokes is one
> muṇḍa spoke (mu.n.da-ara.m),
> with (gahetvā) the wind producing a sound, like the sound made by
> the five kinds of
> musical instruments, well-played and highly skilled.

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N: Its hub is made of sapphire...the joints of red gold; and after
each ten spokes there is one head-spoke whose purpose is to make a
sound by catching the wind, the sound made by which is like the sound
of ...
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>
> B: Questions: why is dassanam repeated twice - meaning seeing over
> and over again?

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N: No, it is dasanna.m, from dasa, ten. a measurement. yassadasanna.m

>

dasanna.m araana.m :After each of the ten spokes.

>
> B: What does yassa refer to? the king or the wheel?

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N: The spokes.
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> B:What does the word mu.n.da mean? Typically it would mean
> "bare" (i. e. shaven or bald) but that doesn't seem to fit the
> context.

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N: I think: the head-spoke. the principal spoke. Mu.n.da is bald
head, but is it possible that it stands here for head? The head-
spoke. PED does not give anything much.
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Nina.



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