Re: Mmd-p.t passage regarding Kc 1 (3 of 3)

Thanks, Jim, that's very cool, and makes it all fall into place very
nicely.  Having a look at the dedicatory verses of Kc 1, and the statement
at 1.1, made it even more clear.  I got a lot of value out of studying these
passages a bit more.  Although, from the point of view of scholarship, I
really prefer your more literal and careful rendering, this inspired me to
add to yours (let's say, as a thank-you gift to you) the following blank
verse version:

Just as, when a solid-heartwood box is solid,

the essential jewel within it is not lost,

and its owner’s wish for a result succeeds;

so, too, when solid heartwood words are formed,

the box of sentences is also solid:

what’s named therein, the jewel of meaning, lasts,

not lost; so the Way it names cannot be lost;

and the wish, of one who walks upon that Way,

for the journey’s fruit, will finally succeed.


On 19 July 2010 21:40, Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> wrote:

>
>
> Here is the last part:
>
> yathā hi thirasāramayo karaṇḍako thiro hoti || tasmiṃ thire
> tadantogadhasāraratanaṃ na vinassati || avinaṭṭhe tasmiṃ
> taṃsāmikassa phalāsā samijjhati | evaṃ thirasārapadanipphādanabyāpāre kate
> byañjanakaraṇḍako thiro hoti || tasmiṃ thire attharatanaṃ na nassati
> tadabhidheyyaṃ || tasmiṃ anaṭṭhe paṭipatti na nassati || anaṭṭhāya
> paṭipattiyā paṭipannakānaṃ phalāsā samijjhati || Mmd-pṭ 44,7-14 ||
>
> For, as a box made of strong heartwood is strong; when it is strong, a
> precious jewel enclosed within is not lost; when this is not lost, the
> owner's expectation of a result is realized; so, when the work of producing
> a word from solid heartwood (the letters) is done, the box of the phrasing
> (words) is strong; when this is strong, the jewel of the meaning, the named
> (of the phrasing), is not lost; when this is not lost, the way is not lost;
> when the way is not lost, the followers' expectation of a result is
> realized.
>
> Best wishes, Jim
>
> 
>


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