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Common terms and phrasesActive Voice adjectives adverbs affix agreeing alphabet Alwis anuswara aorist Asoka base bhikkhu Buddha Buddhist Burmah Burmese burn Ceylon changed character chchh Clough COCO CONDITIONAL MOOD conj conjugation consonant cooo coooo corresponding dative decl declension declined determinate compound devas ekan elided English examples feminine final form nouns FUTURE TENSE Gaudama gender genitive Greek IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT TENSE INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD inscriptions inserted inst Kachchayano katara language last consonant Latin lengthened letter masc masculine neut neuter Nominative noun 1st numeral occasionally OOOO OOOOO OPTATIVE MOOD pachchayd painless or pleasureless Pali books Pali Grammar passive past participle Pavara Personal Pronoun plur preposition pres PRESENT TENSE pron puts restraint reduplication Sanskrit says Second Person semi-vowel signification sing singular sometimes surdsura terminations Third Person verb verbal roots vowel word written Popular passagesPage v - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing. Page v - Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Page vi - Sutras of the Munis, (the practices) of inferior ascetics, the censure of a light world, and (all) false doctrines. These things, as declared by the divine Buddha, I proclaim, and I desire them to be regarded as the precepts of the Law. And... Page 170 - ANTIOCHUS' generals are the rulers) — everywhere the heaven-beloved raja PITADASI'S double system of medical aid is established ; both medical aid for men, and medical aid for animals : together with medicaments of all sorts, which are suitable for men, and suitable for animals. Page 170 - R ija, and those princes who are near to, (or alhed with) that mon ircb, universally (are apprised) that (two designs have been cherished by Priyadasi: one design) regarding men, and One relating to animals ; and whatever herbs are useful to men or useful to animals, wherever there are none, such have been everywhere caused to be conveyed and planted, (and roots and fruits wherever there are none, such have been everywhere conveyed and planted ; and on the roid.s) wells have been caused to be dug,... Page 170 - Piyadasi's double system of medical aid is established, both medical aid for men, and medical aid for animals : together with medicaments of all sorts, which are suitable for men, and suitable for animals. And wherever there is not (such provision), in all such places they are to be prepared, and to be planted : both root-drugs and herbs, wheresoever there is not (a provision of them) in all such places shall they be deposited and planted. " And in the public highways wells are to be dug, and trees... Page 170 - ... Antiochus' generals are the rulers) — everywhere the heaven-beloved Raja Piyadasi's double system of medical aid is established, both medical aid for men, and medical aid for animals : together with medicaments of all sorts, which are suitable for men, and suitable for animals. And wherever there is... Page 161 - ... from the miseries of another birth. Having practised the most excellent works, nothing more remains to be performed by them. They want no more the guidance of the sixteen laws, for they have reached far beyond... Page iii - Alwis sets down the whole of the aphorisms at 687, but the copies in Burmah say there are 710. It is probable that we have substantially the work that was composed by Kachchayano, but if books that haye been watched over like the manuscripts of the New Testament, have their alteratians, and interpolations, it would be marvellous if Kachchayano had come down to us intact. The book is said to have been brought to Burmah .AD 387, by Buddhaghosa, and the Burmese translation and commentary are ascribed... Bibliographic information
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