Distribution Of Absolutive In Una In Ittarajjhaya

Author(s): Herman Tieken
Publisher: Herman Tieken

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9.60/288 13.28/434 20.59/762 36.1/1453 36.249/1701
vamdiūņa datthūņa abhivamdiūna jāņiūna saddhahiūņa
$ 7. Remaining instances (13 instances)
All the instances discussed so far either belong to the narrative parts of the text or, which comes to the same, to those parts of the text which frame tracts, or are found in interpolated passages. This leaves us with the following 13 instances, which are found in what constitutes the "core" text:
6.14d/175 7.3d/181 7.146/192 9.28c/256 11.7d/334 12.18d/379 13.21d/428
kadam laddhūņa bhakkhae. sisam chettūņa bhujjai. mūlam ghettūņa niggayā. nagarassa khemam kāūņam. suyam laddhūņa majjai. kamthammi ghettūņa khalejja jo nam. dhammam akāūņa parammi loe (cp.dhammam (a) kāūņam in 19.20 and 22, quoted above. Note that there as here "having, or not having done dharma" is mentioned as an important factor determining one's fate in the afterworld.. 19.20 and 22 are most likely later insertions) na tujjha bhoe caiūņa buddhi (caiūņa functions as an infinitive here!) chettā nihantūņa (nihaņiūna). (prose, p. 244, 1. 21) micchattavisohim kāūņa. (prose, p. 247, 1. 24) bhāvavisohim kāūņa. kattha gamtūņa sijjhai. tattha gamtūņa sijjhai.
13.33a/439
23.41/877 29.3/1103 29.19/1119 36.550/1506 36.56d/1508
$ 8. Conclusion
The findings presented here may be summed up as follows. If we disregard those instances of the absolutive in -ūņa(m) for which variants - meaningful variants: pucchamteņa for pucchiūņa, or substitutes: caittā for caiūņa - are available (85), this leaves us with a total number of 44. Of