Re: sn 1.10 first line araññe viharantānaṃ, santānaṃ brahmacārinaṃ

Dear Vojislav,

It's the present participle form of viharati which in genitive plural becomes viharantānaṃ or viharataṃ. Viharataṃ is the Sanskrit form and viharantānaṃ is a Prakrit form based on analogy with -a stem nouns (like dhamma). See Geiger's Pāli Grammar §97, page 91.

A participle is a verbal adjective (which can also double, as it does in this case, as a noun). viharantānaṃ means "For those living...".

santānaṃ is just an adjective modifying brahma-cārinaṃ which is also an adjective, here used as a noun (like yogin) "For those who practice..."

bhuñjamānānaṃ is also a present participle (middle voice), "for those who eat" which may also be taken to modify viharantānaṃ.

I hope that is clear,

Best wishes,

Bryan

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Subject: [palistudy] Re: sn 1.10 first line araññe vihar antānaṃ, santān aṃ brahmacārinaṃ

Hello Bryan,

So I guess the verb viharati basically becomes a noun, as in "one who dwells", and the same goes for santānaṃ and brahmacārinaṃ.

I will keep an eye out on this in the future.

I have the same english translation, and even though I am not too happy with it (which is actually why I started learning pali in the first place) for some reason in this instance I stuck to translating it literally as it was in the english translation.

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