ඉව

Sanskrit

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    Adverb

    ඉව • (iva)

    1. Sinhalese script form of इव (“like”)
      • (Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:
        8. ප්‍රමාදමප්‍රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ‍්ඩිතඃ
        ප්‍රඥාප්‍රසාදමාරුහ්‍ය ත්‍වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්‍රජාම්
        පර්‍වතස‍්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ‍්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්‍ෂතෙ
        8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ
        Prajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām
        Parvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate
        8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
        having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
        as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.
        (literally, “8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
        having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
        as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools on the ground.        ”)
        (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)
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