Re: atthesu

Hi Rett,

Thanks for your response. I haven't got too much to add or comment on
and I had some difficulty in following some of the things you wrote. I
have yet to study the tenses in any great detail (as with most of the
other grammatical topics). There should be an explanation of 'atthesu'
(semantic uses?) in some other grammatical treatise whether it be
Sanskrit or Pali. I don't expect to find an explanation in Aggava.msa
as he seems to assume the reader to be well-acquatinted with most of
the technical terms, but then I haven't looked and one never knows
what one will find. I think the future passive participle has the
closest affinity to the optative or potential tense (sattamii) and
I've seen the term 'potential passive participle' used by Vasu which I
think more accurately describes the fpps.

I saw at Khp-a 125 the following gloss: "puujaneyyaananti
puujaarahaana.m" which I think shows the araha sense of the 'eyya'
suffix. In the next paragraph of Mmd there is this '-puujaya-' form in
the compound 'puujaniiyapuujayattaa' that has me baffled. Do you
recognize it? A present participle active would work nicely in the
compound (= "from the fact of honouring that which is worthy of
honour"), but I think of p.p.a forms of 'puujeti' as puujenta,
puujayanta, or puujayamaana. I also thought of the Skt. puujya with an
inserted svarabhakti vowel but there is already the Pali form 'pujja'.

Best wishes,
Jim