Re: sesa-dvaya

Dear Bryan,

Yes, that's right. If I understand correctly, when an uposatha on the
15th is mentioned, there is no need to mention the 8th again and there
will not be a 14th day uposatha.

Lance Cousins

> 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
>