Re: vandite

This message appeared out of the blue. Have I been missing  some
messages again?

Anyway, for what it is worth, I agree that paada is acc. plural. I would
call that construction 'accusative absolute'.

Lance Cousins


Ole Holten Pind wrote:
> Dear Jim,
> 
> paada m. is in the plural nominative paadaa, the acc., however, is paade.
> The problem with the PTS edition is that the editor put a full stop after
> vandi.msu, which has to be converted to a comma as the following vandite ca
> is apposition to paade of the previous sentence: "and (feet of Bhagavat)
> being honoured by Mahaakassapa and the five hundred monks, the funeral pile
> of Bhagavat started burning by itself."
> 
> Ole
>