Re: Question of Pāḷi-words

1. pana means 'But' in this case.

2. h'etaṃ= hi etaṃ.
Hi is emphatic and so the phrase means 'certainly not that, venerable sir'.

Lance Cousins

On 10/03/2015 22:56, KHANH TRONG HUYNH testsuda@... [palistudy] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please kindly take a look through the below simple sutta paragraph:
>
> Taṃ kiṃ maññatha, bhikkhave, ‘rūpaṃ niccaṃ vā aniccaṃ vā?’ ti
> Aniccaṃ, bhante
> ‘Yaṃ *pana^niccaṃ*, dukkhaṃ vā taṃ sukhaṃ vā?’ ti
> Dukkhaṃ bhante
> Yaṃ pana^niccaṃ dukkhaṃ vipariṇāmadhammaṃ, kallannu taṃ
> samanupassituṃ, ‘etaṃ mama, eso’hamasmi, eso me attā?’ ti
> No *h’etaṃ*, bhante
>
> 1.  For Pana^niccaṃ = if that is pana + aniccaṃ, what's the meaning of
> pana ?
>
> 2.  For h'etaṃ = what's its construction ?
>
> Thanks so much for your support
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Huynh Trong Khanh