Re: Excercise 8

Dear Jim and Jaran,
I appreciate the details, especially since I have gone over these myself now
once again.
Nina

op 11-01-2003 04:03 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:

> Hi Jaran,
>
> Your 'by me' is incorrect for 'aha.m' which is just I (nom. sing.) 'te' (=
> them) is the 3rd person masculine pronoun in the accusative plural (the nom.
> pl. is also 'te'). It is the object of 'upasa.mkamitvaa', hence: Having
> approached THEM, I say thus. This expression is found at D III 28
> (Paa.tikasutta) which Rhys Davids translates freely as: To them have I gone
> and said: . . . (p.25) Te is also found as the enclitic form of the second
> person pronoun for the singular of the instrumental, dative, and genitive
> (Warder, p.115). There are altogether 27 pronouns (sabbanaamaani) in Pali
> and the base form of 'te' is 'ta'. Instead of te 'ha.m some texts show the
> sandhi form: tyaaha.m.