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[sabbamitta]

@sujato

Saṇṭhita is “stuck”, saṅkhitta is "constricted. I think all these cases have saṅkhitta.

Oh, my bad. Thanks, I’ve now fixed this for German.

And I still found the following:

Ye ca arūpaṭṭhāyino is translated “and others stuck in the formless” in Iti 73 and “and others established in the formless” in SN 5.4 and SN 5.6.

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@sujato

@sabbamitta

start new one with lowercase

do that!

It has not been done so far.

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@sujato

Indeed. Also, use Progenitor for Pajapati, and Creator for nimmāta instead of Author. This keeps the connection with paranimmita and other contexts. Progenitor also is a weird and strange word, which suits Pajapati, the strange and lonely god.

Hmm … I still see “Author”, and I don’t see the translation for yena mayaṁ bhotā brahmunā nimmitā in DN 24:2.7.18 and DN 1:2.6.7.

As to Pajapati, he doesn’t appear in this context? Am I missing something?

I only see the word “progenitor” in MN 1 and MN 49. In other texts where Pajapati appears, like for example SN 11.3, the name is untranslated.

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@sujato

? I can’t find any offence

Nor can I now …

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@sujato

When following the “reputation” trope, this passage usually ends with bhagavā’ti

Well in some cases it is simply not expanded further, so in such cases the quote has to close here.

The MS is inconsistent in its punctuation, but I think in dn3 it gets it right.

I don’t see a ti after satthā devamanussānaṁ buddho bhagavā in DN 3.

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So, this was my revision of your revision. Thank you so much for always explaining your choices in these threads. It’s very helpful for me, and certainly for other translators too!

I have also posted some feedback to the notes here, not sure if you saw this. Perhaps in the future we should collect all these things in one place.