sesa-dvaya

From: Bryan Levman
Message: 4182
Date: 2015-01-31

Hi Pali friends,

Does anyone know the meaning of the compound sesa-dvaya ("remaining/remainder-pair") in the passage below from Sv 1, 139, 24-25:

so pan' esa aṭṭhamī-cātuddasī-pannarasī-bhedena tividho. Tasmā sesa-dvaya-nivāraṇatthaṃ pannarase ti vuttaṃ.


The context is a discussion on the Uposatho:

"The Uposatha is three-fold, consisting of the eighth day, fourteenth day and fifteenth day. It is called "on the fifteenth" on account of preventing the remaining two" ? Does the "remaining two" refer to the eighth and fourteenth?

Best wishes,

Bryan




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