Re: about api

Dear Ven. Dhammanando,

> 7. aasi.msaa / aasiisaa (hoping)
>
> No examples given in the Padaruupasiddhi or
> Abhidhaanappadiipikaa.tiikaa.

Th CPD gives some examples but doesn't say how it came up with them.
The entire article for 'api' is really quite long (just over 7
columns) and at the beginning it lists the 7 traditional meanings. No.
7 is:

(VII) aasa.msaa (cf. "sa"nkaa in Am-k l.c. and see below A (1) (a, 2 &
3), of which Abh-suuci gives no examples;...

A api (1) prothetic: (a) in the beginning of the sentence...

(2) expectative = perhaps, may be (with pot. (or indic. ??)); Sn 417
(ap'ettha mudu vindemaa, api assaadanaa siyaa) = SN I 124,6*;... [7
other examples given]

(3) optative (or deliberative) (with pot.; cf. (2)); Vin III 25,17
(ap'aaha.m Buddha.m paccakkheyya.m; cf. yan nuunaaha.m Buddha.m p...,
ib. 24,31);.. [3 other examples given]

Jim