These gods seem to have been connected] with the coming of the Pali family to Hawaii as recounted in Liliuokalani's "Song of Creation" and in Malo, page 20.
A hala hope o Humuula ia lakou, hiki lakou mawaho pono o Kealakaha, ike mai la lakou nei i keia wahine e noho ana i ka pali kahakai, e hiamoe ana nae ke Alii ia manawa.
A pau kau hana, alaila, mai kali, e lawe koke aku ia lakou ma keia po no i Kauai, a hoonoho i na pali o Haena, iuka o Honopuwaiakua.
A hookoia ko ke Alii makemake, a holo aku lakou a malalo o ka pali kahakai, ninau aku la i na wahine e kuiopihi ana, "Heaha kela lehulehu o uka?
I take it to be a punning reference to the Pali family from whom the chief sprang, but it may simply be a way of saying "I am a very high chief.
The great Pali of Molokai, one of the most remarkable and picturesque sights of the Islands, stretches for a dozen miles along its windward coast.
It is believed to have been once the bottom of a vast crater, of which the Pali we clambered down formed one of the sides, the others having sunk beneath the ocean, leaving a few traces on one side.
As soon as they came there, orders were given for them to proceed to Waioahukini, half a league's walk in the same direction, and beneath the greatpali of Malilele, on the shore.
Some say that he deposited the body of Umi in the great pali of Kahulaana, but no one knows the exact spot; others say that it was in a cave at Waipio, at Puaahuku, at the top of the great paliover which the cascade of Hiilawe falls.
In order to reach the height of Makanau there was a very steep pali to be ascended.
The Canon of Southern Buddhism, which we might call the Pali Bible, is a literature about twice as large as the Bible of Europe, although if the repetitions in it were removed, it would be somewhat smaller than the Bible.
Even in the early Pali accounts the hero has become a religious figure, he wears titles which lift him above mankind, and he has supernatural powers at his command.
Ranken, Report onPali Plague, Calcutta, 1838; and Whyte, as above.
Strange as such doctrines appear when set beside the Pali texts, it is clear that in their origin and even in the form which they assume in the larger Sukhâvatî-vyûha they are simply an exaggeration of ordinary Mahayanist teaching.
In the Pali Canon we hear of Arhats, Pacceka Buddhas, and perfect Buddhas.
There is no reason to doubt that Gotama regarded himself as one in a series of Buddhas: the Pali scriptures relate that he mentioned his predecessors by name, and also spoke of unnumbered Buddhas to come.
This is not essentially different from the idea found in the Pali Canon that attentions paid to a Buddha may be rewarded by a happy rebirth in heaven.
The terms Paliand Sanskrit Buddhism are convenient and as accurate as can be expected of any nomenclature covering so large a field.
That teaching as presented in the Pali Pitakas is marked by its negative and deliberately circumscribed character.
But the difference between early and later Buddhism lies in this, that the deities who surround the Buddha in the Pali Pitakas are mere accessories: his teaching would not be affected if they were all removed.
If we examine the Pali Pitakas, including the heresies mentioned in the Kathâvatthu, we find that they contain the germs of many Mahayanist ideas.
We received several presents of long narrow books written on palm-leaf, the text being a translation in modern Burmese from the old Pali Bible.
He is an ardent Pali scholar, and has established a college for the study of that ancient language.
We had been hearing of the Paliever since we landed.
The Pali has its good features, but it must be admitted there are drawbacks.
We waited long, but the Pali declined to be wooed into sight again, nor am I certain that we were the losers thereby.
A like difference of opinion exists in regard to the relationship between the Indian or Pali plague which has from time to time prevailed in North-western India during the present century and the true plague.
The black death of the fourteenth century and the Pali plague, though presenting many of the characteristics of bubo plague, differ from it, while they resemble each other, in one important particular.
The Indian or Pali plague (Máhámari) has prevailed in local epidemics of great severity on several occasions during the present century in the North-western provinces of India.
As the King is about to leave the temple, the priests pronounce a Pali blessing upon him, and he again worships Buddha, the sacred books, and the priests.
The late King Maha Mongkut made an innovation on this old custom, by bringing with him extra suits of yellow robes and giving them to certain priests who had distinguished themselves as Pali scholars.
Many of the chief priests of the different temples are profound Sanscrit and Pali scholars.
They then distribute the gifts amongst themselves, after which they bow down and worship Buddha, reciting a few Pali sentences.
Even so the Pali doctrinal books speak of Nirvana as an exemption from old age, disease, and death.
Spence Hardy are our chief authorities in regard to the Pitikas, or the Scriptures in the Pali language, preserved in Ceylon.
It is written; and embodies a copious, but worthless literature, its alphabet being derived from that of the Pali language.
All the forms of Buddhism in the transgangetic peninsula are embodied in Pali writings.
The fact of the oldest inscriptions being in the Pali dialect, is favourable to the greater antiquity of Buddhism, but it is not conclusive.
Again, the Pali is less archaic than the Sanskrit; yet the Pali is the language of the oldest inscriptions in India, indeed, of the oldest Indian records of any sort, with a definite date.
The Pali has the same relation to Buddhism, that the Sanskrit has to Brahminism.
Paliula wanted to see the one who had such a sweet voice, so went along the pali and came to a hula house, but the house was closed tight and she could not look in.
Ke-au-miki went up the pali (precipice) and hastened along the top running and leaping and flying over Hamakua to Hilo.
Kanaloa took it to the Nuuanu pali back of Honolulu, to the place called Ka-ipu-o-Lono.
Lau-ka-pali (leaf of the precipice) was one of her friends.
Ke-ao-mele-mele told the dragon to go and stay on the mountain by the broken pali at the head of Nuuanu Valley.
Kane wanted to send Lanihuli and Waipuhia, their daughters, living near the paliof Waolani and Nuuanu.
When they had shouted, Makalei fell down at the foot of the pali near Ka-wai-nui, and lies there to this day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pali" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
