Re: pa.tipatti

--- In palistudy@..., asterix7@... wrote:
> dear amara,
>
> > I think the pali in the Thai language has changed quite a bit,
over
> > time, I was wondering if it has happened in your language?  The
> > pronounciation of certain pairs of consonants, for example, as I
> wrote
> > in message 162, has become reversed.  Does that happen in your
> > country also?
> >
>
> the pali is not much of a part in sinhala language when it comes to
> usage.
> The pali has been immobile , while the language of communication -
> sinhala
> has been getting a lot of feed from
> pali,sanskrit,tamil and portuguese as well.
>
> > Also, how would you translate pa.tipatti in modern terms, and
>
> the pali patipatti maps to sanskrit 'pratipatti',
> and there also is a sinhala word 'pratipatti' and the
de-sanskritized
> sinhala version 'piliwetha'.
>
> in the modern sinhala usage 'pratipatti' is a 'policy'.
> Like a policy maintained as a precept,guideline,standard, etc.
>
> its a very live word in sinhala.when ppl talk about
> their 'pratipatti's they
> mean their qualitative policies.
> eg: desha+palana pratipatti means political policy
>     videsha pratipatti means foreign policy
>     ayathana pratipatti means company policy
>
> > according to your conventions?  Is it part of current usage or is
it
> > more or less a technical dhamma term, may I ask?
>
> Now it is not necessarily a dhamma term,
>
> > In Thailand it is
> > still very much in use, but it seems that, like many Pali words,
the
> > meaning may have shifted.
>
> Yes there may have been a little shift as people began to use it
> outside the
> dhamma context
>
> Some other occations where 'pati' or 'prati' adds some value to the
> original
> word...
>
> patisandhi,prathisandhi - sandhi is 'link'
> patimallava,prathimallawa - mallava is someone who contests ,
> prati+mallava
> is his/her opponent(the counter-contestant)
> patilaabha,prathilaabha - laabha is profit,gain   , prathi+laabha is
> like
> 'more profit' or 'gain upon gain'
> patiraava,prathiraava - raava is sound,   prathi+raava is echo
> (sometimes
> used for 'more sound')
>
>
> rgds
> gayan


Dear Gayan,

Thank you very much for your detailed reply, and for indulging my
inquisitiveness.  By the way, people are still talking about the
vancaka dhamma at the foundation!  You have introduced quite a number
of people to the mirror of the mind, anumodana again,

Amara