What do you think, Sariputra? For what reason is that
        Thus Come One named Limitless Life?

          Shakyamuni Buddha now asks tat "this" kim(1) "what"
        manyase(2)  "do  you  think"  sariputra  "Sariputra?"
        kena(3)  "for/by  what"  karanena(4)  "reason''  (is)
        sa(5) "that" tathagato(6) "Thus Come One" 'mitayur(7)
        "Limitless  Life" namocyate  "(is) named?" Word order
        in Sanskri  puts the main  verb at the end, literally
        ucyate(8)  "he is called/is he called" nama(9) "by name"
        'mitayur,  that  is,  amitayus   "Limitless/UNlimited
        Life."   amita  means  "unlimited",  and  ayus  means
        "life," and so the compound means literally  "one who
        has unlimited  life."  Why does  the Buddha  Amitayus
        have that name?

        

        
        Notes:
        1. Accusative singular neuter of  the   interrogative
           pronoun.
        2. Second  person singular  verb,  present indicative
           middle voice, of root û man- "think."
        3. Instrumental  singular neuter  of  the intergative
           adjective, modifying karanena.
        4. Insrumental singular of the neuter noun karana.
        5. Nominative singular of the demonstrative adjective,
           modifying  the   masculine  noun  tathagato.  Note
           that  sound sandhi  (sound combination)  makes sas
           appear here as sa before initial t-.
        6. Nominative   singular   of   the  masculine   noun
           tathagata, subject of verb ucyate. Note that final
           -s becomes -o- in combination with initial a-.
        7. Initial a-  of amitayus  disappears as per note  6,
           and final -s becomes -r before initial n-.
        8. Third  singular  verb, present indicative  passive,
           of  root  û vac- which  forms  the present stem  in
           reversed uc-.
        9  Adverbial accusative of the neuter noun naman

        Final  -a of nama and initial  u-  of ucyate  combine
        into -o- giving -ocyate.