pa.ti

Dear Jim, thank you for all the trouble with pa.ti. I looked up the meanings
and could find most of them, except the one with lakkha.ne (11)and also 12.
The meanings are mostly: towards, opposite, back, in return, against. I
found a few more; pa.tisambhidaa, discriminating knowledge; pa.tisa"nkhaana,
discrimination, mindfulness; pa.tivijjhati, comprehend, penetrate;
pa.tivibbhajati, define.
I can find a way out when translating pa.tipatti, I will just be very
careful.
As to the commentary, I found out that the passage on puthujana occurs also
in Expositor II, p. 452. I shall still translate it with that text next to
it, but in English all the word associations get lost. Best wishes, Nina.