1-8: ä-kàrantapulliïga - hatthã
1-8: Masculine Gender with -ã at the end - hatthã

 

ä-kàrantapulliïgo hatthã-saddo vuccate
The Masculine Gender with -ã at the end
is illustrated with the declinable word hatthã 01

 

Abstract:

 

singular:
 
plural:
 
case:
 
-ino -ã nomimative - pañhamà
-ino -ã vocative - (pañhamà)
-inaü -iü -ino -ã accusative - dutiyà
-inà -ãhi -ãbhi instrumental - tatiyà
-ino -issa -ãnaü dative - catutthã
-inà ãto -ismà -imhà -ãhi -ãbhi ablative - paÿcamã
-ino -issa -ãnaü genitive - chaññhã
-ini -ismiü -imhi -ãsu locative - sattamã

 

Sentences:

 

Ediso, jaccandhà, hatthã 02 (nom. sing.)
Such, blind men, is an elephant

 

Sataü hatthã sataü assà, sataü assatarãrathà 03 (nom. plur.)
A hundred elephants, a hundred horses, a hundred mule-drawn chariots

 

Bho hatthã! Maggaü gacchehi (voc. sing.)
O elephant! You must go along the road

 

Bho hatthino! Maggaü gacchetha (voc. plur.)
Bho hatthã! Maggaü gacchetha

O elephants! You must go along the road

 

Jaccandhànaü hatthiü dassehã ti 04 (acc. sing.)
Jaccandhànaü hatthinaü dassehã ti

Show an elephant to those congenitally blind.

 

Hatthino asse ca yojentu rathaü (acc. plur.)
Hatthã asse ca yojentu rathaü 05

You must harness horses and elephants to the chariot

 

Rathaü setena hatthinà nãyati (agent. inst. sing.)
The chariot is led out by the white elephant

 

Rathe setehi hatthãhi nãyati (agent. inst. plur.)
The chariots are led out by the white elephants

 

Caõóena pi hatthinà samàgacchati 06 (inst. sing.)
He meets with a wild elephant

 

Hatthinàgo àkiõõo viharati hatthãhi 07 (inst. plur.)
A Nàga elephant was living beset by elephants

 

So hatthissa ce pi pahàraü deti 08 (dat. sing.)
If he gives a blow to an elephant

 

Hatthãnaü sahabyataü upapajjati 09 (dat. plur.)
He will be reborn amongst the elephants

 

Hatthinà oruyha ... idaü gàthà dvayam-àha (abl. sing.)
Hatthito oruyha ... idaü gàthà dvayam-àha
Hatthismà oruyha ... idaü gàthà dvayam-àha
Hatthimhà oruyha ... idaü gàthà dvayam-àha 10

Having descended from the elephant ... he spoke these two verses

 

Caõdehi hatthãhi bhayàni uppajjanti (abl. plur.)
Fears arise from wild elephants

 

äsàdantassa hatthino ... cittaü 11 (gen. sing.)
äsàdantassa hatthissa ... cittaü

The pole-toothed elephant's ... mind

 

Na tattha hatthãnaü bhåmi 12 (gen. plur.)
There is no ground there for elephants

 

Hatthini và assasmiü và ... anavayo (loc. sing.)
Hatthismiü và assasmiü và ... anavayo 13
Hatthimhi và assasmiü và ... anavayo

Not lacking in an elephant or a horse

 

Hatthãsi và assesu và ... anavayo 14 (loc. plur.)
Not lacking in elephants or horses

 

Iti Aññhamo Pàñho
Such is the Eighth Lesson

 

last updated: December 2006