Re. A difficult Pali word

[Ven. Tantra]

Jonathan Silk wrote:

<<...I cannot understand what tumbamatta might mean,
unless tumba is taken as a unit of measure, and the
expression is intended to mean something like "covered
with creatures to the extent of a litre-bucket full"
or something like that...>>

I look at �tum-� as tumescence and would render the
phrase simply �covered with growth� [growth =
�creatures� in the sense that Italians refer to fungi
as �animals�].

VT


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