SV: eva.m me suta.m

Dear Bhante,

Many thanks for this interesting list of references. I think that the first
example is really wonderful. Gotama is portrayed as one who neither says "I
hear (people) say the following" nor does he say "this is how it should be",
but rather, he says "at that time it was like this, at that time it was in
this way." The difference lies in the time reference. The first way of
expressing oneself is rejected because of its generalized present tense
without specific time reference. The following presents Gotama as one whose
speech refers to the event in the past that corroborates his statement.

Ole Holten Pind