{"id":"thig6.1","title":"Five Hundred Students of Paṭācārā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thig6.1","title":"Five Hundred Students of Paṭācārā","units":[{"id":"thig6.1:0","sourceIds":["thig6.1:0.1","thig6.1:0.2","thig6.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Therīgāthā 6.1\nChakkanipāta\nPañcasatamattātherīgāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Nuns 6.1\nThe Book of the Sixes\nFive Hundred Students of Paṭācārā"}},{"id":"thig6.1:1","sourceIds":["thig6.1:1.1","thig6.1:1.2","thig6.1:1.3","thig6.1:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yassa maggaṁ na jānāsi,\nāgatassa gatassa vā;\nTaṁ kuto cāgataṁ sattaṁ,\n‘mama putto’ti rodasi.","en":"“One whose path you do not know,\nnot whence they came nor where they went;\nthough they came from who knows where,\nyou mourn that being, crying, ‘Oh my son!’"}},{"id":"thig6.1:2","sourceIds":["thig6.1:2.1","thig6.1:2.2","thig6.1:2.3","thig6.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Maggañca khossa jānāsi,\nāgatassa gatassa vā;\nNa naṁ samanusocesi,\nevaṁdhammā hi pāṇino.","en":"But one whose path you do know,\nwhence they came or where they went;\nthat one you do not lament—\nsuch is the nature of living creatures."}},{"id":"thig6.1:3","sourceIds":["thig6.1:3.1","thig6.1:3.2","thig6.1:3.3","thig6.1:3.4","thig6.1:3.5","thig6.1:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayācito tatāgacchi,\nnānuññāto ito gato;\nKutoci nūna āgantvā,\nvasitvā katipāhakaṁ;\nItopi aññena gato,\ntatopaññena gacchati.","en":"Unasked he came,\nhe left without leave.\nHe must have come from somewhere,\nand stayed who knows how many days.\nHe left from here by one road,\nhe will go from there by another."}},{"id":"thig6.1:4","sourceIds":["thig6.1:4.1","thig6.1:4.2","thig6.1:4.3","thig6.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Peto manussarūpena,\nsaṁsaranto gamissati;\nYathāgato tathā gato,\nkā tattha paridevanā”.","en":"Departing with the form of a human,\nhe will go on transmigrating.\nAs he came, so he went:\nwhy weep over that?”"}},{"id":"thig6.1:5","sourceIds":["thig6.1:5.1","thig6.1:5.2","thig6.1:5.3","thig6.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Abbahī vata me sallaṁ,\nduddasaṁ hadayassitaṁ;\nYā me sokaparetāya,\nputtasokaṁ byapānudi.","en":"“Oh! For you have plucked the arrow from me,\nso hard to see, stuck in the heart.\nYou’ve swept away the grief for my son,\nin which I once was mired."}},{"id":"thig6.1:6","sourceIds":["thig6.1:6.1","thig6.1:6.2","thig6.1:6.3","thig6.1:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sājja abbūḷhasallāhaṁ,\nNicchātā parinibbutā;\nBuddhaṁ dhammañca saṅghañca,\nUpemi saraṇaṁ muniṁ”.","en":"Today I’ve plucked the arrow,\nI’m hungerless, quenched.\nI go for refuge to that sage, the Buddha,\nto his teaching, and to the Saṅgha.”"}},{"id":"thig6.1:7","sourceIds":["thig6.1:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itthaṁ sudaṁ pañcasatamattā therī bhikkhuniyo … pe….","en":"That is how five hundred nuns declared their enlightenment."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thig6.1/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}