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@sabbamitta

Probably something like: “If you’re a farmer, explain it to me, so that we can understand your farming”.

Yes, and these two passages are subtly different. I’ve adjusted the translation to more precisely reflect the variant texts.

@mikenz66

In MN137 SuttaCentral it is hard to figure out the connection between the English and Pali, due to the use of a lot of double negatives

It’s not easy to not make unclear.

@mikenz66

Here is a comparison between Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation and Bhikkhu Sujato’s

The difference is deliberate. In BB’s version, the monks behave badly and the Buddha is not satisfied. Which seems superfluous; the point, rather, is that he is not upset by what happened. It’s down to a variant in the manuscripts, which must be old, since it is found in the commentary. However acc. to Analayo, the Chinese has the more sensible negative form here, as does the MS edition on which I rely, so I follow that.

@stu

I was expecting the root and the translation of these two segments to be the same, that is "329–332 " for both

We’re in the process of adjusting how these are handled.

@Snowbird

It looks like here there is a split font ligature at the end of the first line:

Must be a bug in FF, it works fine on Chrome.

@Danny

He never tired of teaching the Dhamma

No, that’s correct.

@sabbamitta

It looks like this page could do with a thourough revision and should perhaps be added to the list of unsafe pages for Bilara translation.

Indeed. I’ll put this on the to-do.

@Snowbird

I don’t think this text or the text of the permutations should be a different colour in the first place

Turn off highlighting.

@sabbamitta

some people bow their head to the Buddha’s feet, while others do it at the Buddha’s feet

use “at”.

@sabbamitta

esa dhammo sanantano

Fun fact, sanantana is related to “senile”.

Change to “eternal truth”.

@Snowbird

Also, the permanant url for the lightweight/mini sc

Fixed

@sabbamitta

Inconsistency:

These verses have a subtle variation in the voice. sn8.8 has carasi “you wander” where thag21.1 has carati “he wanders”. The confusion is probably because most of the verbs in this passage allow a reading as either second or third person. However, the preceding passage is definitely second person, and it seems reasonable to assume that Vangisa is continuing to address the Buddha directly. I’ll render both passages in second person.

However, the phrase “see him!” must be in third person. Here I imagine Vangisa is turning to the monks to exhort them. The aorist three lines down (akkhāsi “explained”) can be either second or third person, but I assume that, since this is a new verse, Vangisa has turned back to address the Buddha.

@CurlyCarl

Suddhāso Bhikkhu’s translation of AN 3.136 has been paralleled with AN 3.1

thanks, fixed.

@Jhana4

What is “1” in the view list, is “2” in the content and so on.

This is caused by missing translation of heading, I think I have updated all these cases now.

@sabbamitta

sometimes it’s “things which are shared”, sometimes “teachings that are shared”

It’s odd that the Pali is different in each case. But anyway, I think this is a mistake: it is pp of vibhajati, and in the context of teachings it should have the normal sense of “analyzed”. BB has “resorted to” which I can’t explain. Norman has “things shared out”, without comment.

The commentaries evidently take it in this sense, explaining as “among the things (or teaching) that are blameable or blameless, I have attained the best of them, i.e. Nibbana”.

This seems reasonable, since it always occurs in the context of arahantship.

Of the well-explained teachings,
I arrived at the best.