I don’t know Pali well but I’m doubtful that there is manuka honey in India as the manuka tree is only found in Australasia. What is the original Pali for this phrase ?
“Whatever the Buddha teaches, we shall listen to it.” It’s like when there’s a person at the crossroads pressing out pure manuka honey, and a large crowd is poised on the edge of their seats. "
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If you enable the Pali-English view you can directly see it:
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“khuddamadhum”
madhu; honey
khuddaka ; honey made by a kind of small bees
I can’t think of an alternative…
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Ha! Mānuka the a Māori word used for the plant in New Zealand, though the plant did originate in Australia…
Leptospermum scoparium, commonly called mānuka, (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Māori pronunciation: [maːnʉka]) mānuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) and south-east Australia. Mān...
New Zealand honey producers have been trying to assert ownership of the name…
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Mat
June 27, 2018, 12:25pm
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Maybe it was flown over to Australia by a psychic monk trailing a cloud a small from the Ganges valley!
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ERose
June 27, 2018, 1:05pm
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Names are part of language. Trees are part of nature. Both evolve, adapt, adopt.
Maybe the tree whispered its choice of name, thinking of sitting in a past life by that crossroads, sorry for the bees, glad for the honey.
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sujato
June 28, 2018, 1:06am
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An attentive reader of my translations will notice an occasional nod to my antipodean background.
ERose:
Maybe the tree whispered its choice of name, thinking of sitting in a past life by that crossroads, sorry for the bees, glad for the honey.
What a beautiful thought!
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This sound like the Ügg Boots" court case.
What was the outcome?
In a hundred years this passage will be cited as support of the ‘Buddha lived in Australia’ theory. He stopped over in Sri Lanka on the way of course.
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I don’t see any value in adding in the manuka when it is clear it is not. Perhaps the word would best be left as honey.
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