{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17190.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17190.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17190.htm","text":"In the 7th Nissaggiya, in the 34th P\u00e2kittiya, and in the 36th P\u00e2kittiya there occurs the phrase abhihatthum pav\u00e2reyya, regarding the correct translation of which, as will be seen from the note on the first passage, we were in doubt. The connection is always 'if A should offer B,' &c.; and the only difficulty is the force of the word abhihatthum which precedes the 'should offer,' and in some way qualifies it. In all three passages the Old Commentary preserved in the Sutta-Vibha\u1e45ga explains the two words abhihatthum pav\u00e2reyya by 'Take just as much as you want' (y\u00e2vatakam ikkhasi t\u00e2vatakam ganh\u00e2hi), which does not solve the difficulty. On the following words of the third passage, however, the Old Commentary (see H. O., 'Vinaya Pitakam,' vol. iv, p. 84) uses the word abhiharati in its usual sense of 'he brings up to, offers to, hands over to,' as practically equivalent to abhihatthum pav\u00e2reti; and Buddhaghosa, in the Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 on the 7th Nissaggiya, uses abhiharitv\u00e2 as directly equivalent to abhihatthum.\nNow in a passage quoted from the Thera-g\u00e2th\u00e2 in H. O.'s 'Buddha, sein Leben, seine Lehre, and seine Gemeinde' (p. 425, note 1), nikkhamitumna occurs as the gerund of nikkhamati instead of nikkhamitv\u00e2na. The existence in Pr\u00e2krit of corresponding gerunds in -tu, -tum for -tv\u00e2, and in -t\u00fbna, -tu\u00e2na for -tv\u00e2na, is laid down in Hemakandra II, 146 (Pischel, vol. i, p. 62). And Professor Weber has given corresponding forms (\u00e2hattu, kattu, &c.) from the Gain dialect in his Bhagavat\u00ee I, p. 433.\nWhat we have in the phrase in question is therefore simply a gerund in -tum, and the two words taken together mean, 'if A should lay before and offer to B,' &c. The thing offered in one case is robes, in the other two cases food; and abhiharati is the usual word in P\u00e2li for serving food, laying it before another person. Compare th\u00e2li-p\u00e2ka-sat\u00e2ni abhihari at G\u00e2taka I, 186; and the phrase bhatt\u00e2bhih\u00e2ro abhih\u00e2riyittha constantly repeated in the Mah\u00e2-sudassana Sutta (Rh. D., 'Buddhist Suttas,' in the last paragraph of chap. II, \u00a7 12, 29, 31, 33, 37).","title":"SBE 17: Note on Abhihatthum","type":"page"}