Venerable Sir @sujato , I am wondering why you decided not to translate “jātarūparajataṃ jātidhammaṃ” in MN26 SC 6.2 and 7.2. The phrase is given in the Pali version: Partners and children, male and female bondservants, goats and sheep, chickens and pigs, and elephants and cattle are liable to be …

Any translator makes choices about their source material based on their considered judgment, and no matter how many footnotes, there are never enough to explain those choices. Few translators, however, go to the trouble of building software specifically so you can see the original text next to the …

MN26 and the missing gold in Sujato's translation

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sujato June 19, 2018, 11:54pm 2

There’s an essay on that!

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