Re: mantā (mantaa) as absolut ive

Bryan,

At D III 106 we have:
/mantā mantā ca vācaṃ bhāsati nidhānavatiṃ kālena. etad ānuttariyaṃ,
bhante, bhassasamācāre/.

Sv III 892 glosses:
/*mantā mantā ca vācaṃ bhāsatī* ti ettha mantā ti vuccati paññā, mantāya
paññāya. puna mantā ti upaparikkhitvā/.

This seems to be taking the second occurrence of /mantā/ as an absolutive.

K.R. Norman (Sn Trsl. note to v.159) seems to understand Pj II 402 as
taking /mantā/ as an absolutive, but that appears doubtful.

Lance


On 30/06/2012 16:04, Bryan Levman wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> The normal absolutive of the verb man, maññati (ma~n~nati)  is mantvā (mantvaa, "having thought, having considered, etc."), but Fahs Grammatik (page 327) says that the form mantā (mantaa) also occurs. Has anyone ever seen this form in this usage (as opposed to the plural of the noun manta, "spells")?
>
>
> Metta, Bryan