Re: atthesu

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the latest response. I thought I'd respond to this part
first, since it's a separate question connected to Mmd.

>  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'.


You mention that in context it would work well if it was a present
participle (presumably with a -tva/-tta suffix forming an abstract
noun, in the ablative)

I'm not certain how this works in Pali, but in Sanskrit the stems of
passive participles use the weak form, without the nasal. So the
example you give puujayanta, for example, would be puujayat- in the
stem form. Perhaps this is the case here, either as a sanskritism in
the Pali, or a viable Pali form?

Hence: puujayat + tta (with ellision of the superflous t)? This is
just a guess, of course.

Will this passage be coming in the next installment of Mmd?

best regards,

/Rett