Distribution Of Absolutive In Una In Ittarajjhaya

Author(s): Herman Tieken
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ABSOLUTIVE IN -ŪŅA(M)
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41ab/1036 and 49ab/1044 (both read padikkamittu nissallo vamdittāṇa tao gurum).
A special case is formed by the variants pucchiūņa and pucchamteņa in 20.57/760, which seem to be related to the variants available for Pāda c, namely nimamtiyā (absolutive) and nimamtio (past participle). The verse has been transmitted in basically two forms, namely
pucchiūņa mae tubbham jhānaviggho u jo kao nimamtiyā ya bhogehim tam savvam marisehi me
The obstruction of your meditation which I made having asked you all these questions and having talked to you about enjoyments, please forgive me all that.
pucchamtena mae tubbham jhānaviggho u jo kao nimamtio ya bhogehim tam savvam marisehi me,
The obstruction of your meditation which I made by asking all these questions and
the fact that I have talked to you about enjoyments, please forgive me all that, respectively. In the first version Pādas abc form one sentence, both pucchiūņa and nimamtiyā being dependent on mae ... jhāṇnaviggho ... kao. In the second version we have to do with two different "sins" and two separate sentences, each with a construction of their own. The latter version may have to be preferred in the light of tam savvam in Pāda d. Apart from that the second version is syntactically the more difficult version. However, this dilemma only concerns the variants nimamtiyā and nimamtio. That is to say, if the text did indeed originally read nimamtio, its substitution by nimamtiyā need not automatically have led to the substitution of pucchamteņa by pucchiūņa as well.
When all is said and done, the only thing these instances show is that the substitition of a regular AMg absolutive by one ending in -ūņa(m), or vice versa, was an option in the course of the transmission of the text.
$ 6. Absolutives in -ūņa(m) in āryās.
As shown by ALSDORF all āryās in Uttarajjhāyā are later additions. For completeness' sake below those instances of the absolutive in -ūņa(m) in āryās mentioned so far have been brought together.
1.21 9.1/229 9.55/283
caiūņa caiūna avaijjhiūna and viuruvviūna