Pali word association game

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taco (skin)
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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hadayaṃ (heart)
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matthalunga - brain
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
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singhāṇikā (snot)
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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lohitaṃ (blood)
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kumbhanda (vampire)

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Jechbi wrote:kumbhanda (vampire)
How do you write Dick Cheney in Pali? :thinking:

I guess I'll have to go with:

Mara (death, bringing death; also the name of a being who tempts Buddhas and near-arahants)
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ādāso (mirror)
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
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Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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khura (razor)
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Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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Angulimala (garland of fingers; also the name of the monk who became an Arahant after ending his murderous ways, collecting fingers)
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sankhalikā a chain of bones, a skeleton
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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gaddula (chain for a dog)
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kamma: a chain for beings
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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deva (celestial, divine being, still subject to kamma and rebirth)
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