Dialogues of the Buddha, Part II — trans. T. W. and C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1910)

5. A second and a third time did the Exalted One [say the same thing, and a second and a third time was Ananda's heart thus hardened].

6. Then the Exalted One addressed the vener-

1 Yatha tarn Marena pariyu///ntacitto. Here ta.m is the indeclinable particle, yatha taw introducing an explanation. My MS. of the Digha Nikaya and the Tumour MS. of the Sumangala Vilasini read parivu///zita, and either spelling is correct. The fact is that the ' y ' or ' v ' in such cases is even less than euphonic ; it is an assistance not to the speaker, but merely to the writer. Thus in the Sinhalese duwanawa, 'to run,' the spoken word is duanawa, and the ' w ' is written only to avoid the awkward use in the middle of a written word of the initial sign for the sound ' a '. That the speakers of Pali found no difficulty in pronouncing two vowels together is abundantly proved by numerous instances. The writers of Pali, in those cases in which the second vowel begins a word, use without hesitation the initial sign ; but in the middle of the word this would be so ungainly that they naturally prefer to insert a consonantal sign to carry the vowel sign. The varying readings I have pointed out are a strong confirmation of the correctness of the pronunciation of modern native scholars (in this case pari-u///nta) ; and we may the more readily adopt it as the question is not really one concerning the pronunciation of Pali, but concerning the use which modern native copyists make of their own alphabet. I would pronounce therefore pari-utthita-citto. See Windisch, ' Mara und Buddha,' p. 40; M.I, 43.3-4; Vin. II, 289; IV. 94, 229.

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able Ananda, and said : — ' You may leave me, Ananda, awhile, and do whatsoever now seemeth to Athee fit.'

' So be it, lord ! ' said the venerable Ananda, in assent, to the Exalted One, and passing him on the right sat down at the foot of a certain tree not far off thence.

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7. Now not long after the venerable Ananda had been gone, Mara, the Evil One, approached the Exalted One and stood beside him. And so standing there, he addressed the Exalted One in these words : —

' Pass away now, lord ; let the Exalted One now die. Now is the time for the Exalted One to pass away — even according to the word which the Exalted One spoke when he said l : — ■" I shall not die, O Evil One ! until the brethren and sisters of the Order, and until the lay-disciples of either sex 2 shall have become true hearers, wise and well trained, ready and learned, carrying the doctrinal books in their memory, masters of the lesser corollaries that follow from the larger doctrine, correct in life, walking according to the precepts — until the)-, having thus themselves learned the doctrine, shall be able to tell others of it, preach it, make it known, establish it, open it, minutely explain it and make it clear — until they, when others start vain doctrine easy to be refuted by the truth, shall be able in refuting it, to spread the wonder-working 3 truth abroad ! '