Re: Kaccayana edition

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>Text: samaahaaraasamaahaaresu ekattaa napu.msakattaa ca;
>N: why here an eunuch? with and without nutrition? This is a difficult one.


A 'samaahaara' is a kind of dvandva compound where two things that
form a natural pair are put together, and the whole is expressed in
the singular neuter. The most typical example for us would be
pattaciivara.m 'bowl and robe'.
This is probably the sense of samaahaara here, though the exact
meaning of this compound is unclear to me without the context.
Perhaps this is enough of a hint.

napu.msaka is the term for neuter case, as Jim mentioned.

ekattaa and napu.msakattaa appear to be in ablative...

perhaps tr. "because of (it's being) singular and neuter".

hope this helps,

/Rett