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пали |
Ratananti ratiṃ nayati vahati janayati vaḍḍhetīti ratanaṃ.
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| khantibalo |
Ratanaṃ (Драгоценность): она побуждает, приносит, порождает радость, поэтому она называется драгоценностью. |
| Nyanamoli thera |
Jewel (ratanam): it induces (nayati), brings, generates (janayati),14 weal (rati—lit. ’delight'), thus it is a jewel (ratana); |
Comm Nyanamoli thera: 'Janayati —to generate ': not in P.E.D.; ratim janayati means literally 'generates delight', an example of punning word-derivation (often now called 'edifying etymology'—but should we then suppose the other kind' unedifying ' ?), which suggests the rather clumsy English counterpart in the translation. The device, irritating to modern scholarship afraid of thepun, is semantically and mnemonically useful.