Re: questions based on Digha Tika

Jim,

It's an oblique case of an abstract noun vyāpitā formd from he past
participle.

Lance

> To all those interested in the discussion,
>
> << Atha vā asādhāraṇañāṇavisesanibandhanabhūtā sātisayaṃ niravasesañca
> sabbaññutaññāṇaṃ viya savisayabyāpitāya mahākaruṇābhāvaṃ upagatā karuṇāva
> bhagavato atisayena hadayasītalabhāvahetūti āha ‘‘karuṇāsītalahadayan”ti. >>
>
> With the word  "savisayabyāpitāya", I'm more puzzled by the suffixes of
> "byāpitāya" than I am with "sa". It appears to me there is a past
> participle of the causative verb "vyāpeti" with a singular feminine case
> ending. If it is an adjective it should qualify a feminine noun also ending
> in -āya which is absent here unless the "mahākaruṇāya" in the compund that
> follows can serve that purpose even though the "ya" is hidden.
>
> Jim