Re: catusu ṭhānesu

Dear Royce,

Thank you very much for the clarification. I wonder if it could be an old usage of several in the sense:

1.
separate or respective.
"the two levels of government sort out their several responsibilities"
synonyms:respective, individual, own, particular, specific; separate, different, diverse, disparate, divergent, distinct, discrete; various, sundry
"the two levels of government must sort out their several responsibilities"

In that case, the sentence could be modernised: and made his obeisance at the four respective/different points.

It is still not clear, from this passage alone, to understand what these four points are.

Best wishes,

Aleix

El mié., 12 sept. 2018 a las 14:56, Royce WILES rw108@... [palistudy] (<palistudy@yahoogroups.com>) escribió:

"Cowell's translation is rendered: "and made his obeisance at the four several points" (could any English native speaker clarify me this usage of ‘several'?).”

I’m afraid this phrasing does not make sense to me at all; 'four’ and ‘several’ both indicate numbers, putting them beside each other is problematic (to say the least), to me it needs to be one or the other, certainly putting in both upsets my grammatical feelings.

R