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**Xbcofega** · 06-20-2012, 01:35 PM

Just one final question. What is the purely 'literal' translation of the final given precepts, given at the time of the Buddha in the Pali Canon? Was it 'abstain', or simply 'do not'?

The pali word is sikkhāpadaṃ, I think the m on the end changes a noun to a verb though I'm not certain. As usual when I look up words on the pali dictionary there is so much info there I'm left none the wiser, see http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/phi...c.4:1:111.pali

06-20-2012, 01:35 PM	#23
Xbcofega Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 358 Senior Member	Just one final question. What is the purely 'literal' translation of the final given precepts, given at the time of the Buddha in the Pali Canon? Was it 'abstain', or simply 'do not'? The pali word is sikkhāpadaṃ, I think the m on the end changes a noun to a verb though I'm not certain. As usual when I look up words on the pali dictionary there is so much info there I'm left none the wiser, see http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/phi...c.4:1:111.pali
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