[Buddha-l] "Western Self, Asian Other"

[Richard Nance]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Dan Lusthaus <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Richard, set us straight, but my grammar sources tell me that the vocative
> of padma is padma, and that padme is indeed a locative.

Wrong Richard, I know -- and it's been a while since I've perused the
book -- but as I recall, the compound is being read as a bahuvrIhi.
Cf. the relevant vocative:

http://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/sktdeclin?t=VH&q=taaraa&g=Fem&font=roma

Hope this helps,

Richard N. (the other one)