A Pali Grammar on the Basis of Kachchayano with Chrestomathy & Vocabulary

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Institute Press, 1868 - 214 páginas
 

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Página vii - 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.
Página vii - 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.
Página viii - 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...
Página 2 - A few words in conclusion regarding the alphabet, of which I have had a fount prepared while this article was setting up for press. There is a primitive simplicity in the form of every letter, which stamps it at once as the original type whereon the more complicated structure of the Sanskrit has been founded.
Página 165 - In after times, a young man, named Piadatha, shall ascend the throne, and become a great and renowned monarch under the name of Athoka. Through him, the relics shall be spread all over the island of Dzampoodipa, King Adzatathat made new offerings of flowers and perfumes.
Página 173 - ... 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...
Página v - Ulmddi affixes. Each book is divided into several Sections, each containing from twenty to fifty aphorisms. The copy found in Ceylon by Mr. 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...
Página 4 - ... the late mutiny. We now see very clearly that the great trouble taken with the adjustment of the cave character would have been unnecessary if we had noticed sufficiently early its correspondence with the Phoenician and Greek alphabets, from a combination of which it is manifestly derived...
Página 127 - THE INTERMEDIATE ^ I. $ 331. Before we can proceed to form the paradigms of the Reduplicated Perfect by means of joining the terminations with the root, it is necessary to consider the intermediate ^ i, which in the Reduplicated Perfect and in the other unmodified tenses has to be inserted between the verbal base and the terminations, originally beginning with consonants. The rules which require, allow, or prohibit the insertion of this \ i form one of the most difficult chapters of Sanskrit grammar,...

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