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yesāhaṁ

yaṁ

genitive plural masculine relative pronoun (yesāṁ), with enclitic first-person singular nominative pronoun ahaṁ; 'of whom I'

1. of whom I
2. whose I

Analysis. yesāṁ 'of whom' (gen. pl. of yaṁ, relative pronoun) + ahaṁ 'I' (enclitic first-person nominative). The construction is typical in Pali relative clauses where an enclitic pronoun serves as the predicate: 'I of whom' = 'of whom I am' or 'whose (property/state) I am'.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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