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Hi Jim and Noah,

I forgot to mention the lesson in the first example of Jim's. I don't know how khayavaya changes to udakabaka (I can explain the consonantal changes but not the change from kh- > ud  which I have never encountered before), but khayavaya > gha.tapa.ta is possible in Prakrit. kh- > gh (Pischel 202) v- could to to p- via b- and -y- could change to -.t- via -t-.
If I am reading the Paali correctly, the story is illustrating the perils of misunderstanding one's letter-sounds. They are both given the meditation subject "khavavaya", but in putting it into practice, they (presumably) translate it into their own dialect -  one monk understands it as "udakabaka"  (prompted by the fact that he saw a heron catch a fish in the water?) and the other understands it as "gha.tapa.ta" (because he saw a heap of clothes?). In both cases, they lose concentration because of this misunderstanding. Is that how you read it?

Thanks, Bryan


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