Re: Pubbeva me, bhikkhave, sambodhā ...

From: Bryan Levman
Message: 5059
Date: 2018-05-19

Dear Balaji,

Sambodha is also a masculine noun meaning "enightenment" in both Pali and Skt.

Metta, Bryan



On Friday, May 18, 2018, 4:33:00 PM EDT, Balaji balaji.ramasubramanian@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

I think Ven. Bodhi has a pertinent question that is still not answered yet.

The use of ablative case with pubbe is understood. But the form sambodhā looks unusual when the word to be inflected is sambodhi. Feminine words ending in short i vowel (ajanta pātipadikam) deflect as sambodhāya. I was hoping that answers can be found in Gāndhārī or some other dialect.

Thanks,
Balaji

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:59 PM Royce WILES rw108@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Seeing Edgerton’s Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary referred to in this thread reminded me of a very useful on-line dictionary site (new to me, apologies if you already know and use this)



You can see in the tab there the PTS dictionary, Edgerton’s dictionary (BHSD) and even Monier-Williams (MW) (and a few others); all searchable with a single input in Unicode and very helpful.

Royce

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Balaji
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