Re: Exercise 9 No 1

Hi again Jaran,

Shortly after posting my last message to you, I started thinking that I
could be wrong in calling 'saa' in your no. 1 the agent and the same could
be said for calling 'vijjaa' the agent in no. 2. I will have to do some
investigation to learn more about what gets the term 'agent' (kattu). This
term is one of a group of six called kaaraka-s which assist the verb. But in
the case of a sentence without a verb I wonder if there could be an agent.
Another problem exists with 'atthi' in that sometimes it is used as an
indeclinable. I'll get back to you later on this as soon as I find something
definitive. The agent is further divided into three kinds: suddhakattaa,
hetukattaa, & kammakattaa.

Best wishes,

Jim

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