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105 30 2. Then what is the name) formed by the nominal terminations?1 (The name) formed by the nominal terminations is stated to be eightfold (in the following verse):
(The names) formed by the nominal terminations are of eight kinds (expressing eight different meanings), viz.
(i) profession (kamma), (ii) handicraft (sippa), (iii) reverence (siloa), (iv) relation (samjoga), ( v ) vicinity (samīvaa), (vi) authorship (samjüha), (vii) wealth or power (issariya),
(viii) progeny or descendants (avacca) //92// 303. Then what is the name expressing profession. The following are (the examples of the name expressing profession:
A person engaged in the profession of carrying grassloads is called) tanahāraa, (a person engaged in the profession of carrying wood is called) katthahāraa, (a person engaged in the profession of carrying or cutting leaves is called) pattahāraa, (a cloth-merchant is called) dossia, (a thread dealer is called) sottia, (a cotton merchant is called) kappāsia, (a pot maker is called) kolalia, and (a person dealing in wares or grocery is called) bhamdaveyalia.
This is the name expressing profession.
304. Then what is the name expressing handicraft? The following are (the examples of the name, expressing handicraft :
(A cloth dealer is called) vatthia, (a person who plays on stringed instrument is called) tamtia, (a darn-worker is called) tunnaa, (a weaver is called) tamtuvaa, (a garment (?) maker is called) pattakāra, (a person who separates cotton seeds is called) uetta", (a basket maker is called) baru da, (the maker of rope of the mumja grass is called) mumjakāra, (a carpenter is called) katthakāra, (an umbrella-maker is called) chattakāra, (a leather strap maker is called) vajjhakara, (a cloth-maker or a book-maker is called) potthakāra, (a painter or draftsman is called) cittakāra, (an ivory worker is called) damtakāra, (a painter or a person who smears is called) leppakāra, (a person
1. Vide supra, sutta No. 293. 2. Here we have followed the reading given in footnote l on p. 131 of the MJV
edition. 3. Vide footnote 3 on p. 131 of the MJV edition.
