Re: some remarks on continuative participle

Thanks to Bhante Pandita for his comments,

(Incidentally, I, too, recently relocated from Taiwan --but from Taiwan to
Thailand)

>     Now I would like to explain in my own words, that is, how we
> understand this so-called continuative participle. It is in fact a verb
> but it cannot stand on his own; it is dependent on another verb taking
> place later than it in the time frame of context. We usually translate
> it as a verb followed by "... and" For instance:
> puriso bhutvaa gachaati = The man eats and goes (that is, eating first
> and going later)

This is what I was explaining in the form "Having eaten, the man goes".  The
latter form is the English equivalent to the absolutive (and it includes a
gerund as part of its construction in the sentence).  I suppose Warder is
not wrong to call this a gerund, but it is confusing, as the form cannot be
used in other ways that a gerund can be.

E.M.

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