Re: catusu ṭhānesu
From: Royce WILES
Message: 5102
Date: 2018-09-13
Hi Aleix
On checking I can see your suggestion is an excellent one, this is an old (now obsolete I’d say) usage in English with ‘several’ meaning just ‘different’ as you pointed out.
Two examples may suffice (from a mere Google search)
“Twenty one several books of Mr William Bridge” (book title printed in 1657, see in Worldcat)
“for we were to pass thro’ two several places that were very full of rocks” (in Frick, Christopher, A relation of two several voyages made into the East-Indies” (printed 1700)
Royce