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Pārāsariya (1st)

Pārāpariyattheragāthā

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Theragāthā 1.116Verses of the Senior Monks 1.116
  • 0.2EkakanipātaThe Book of the Ones
  • 0.3DvādasamavaggaChapter Twelve

0.4PārāpariyattheragāthāPārāsariya (1st)

1.1“Chaphassāyatane hitvā,I’ve given up the six spheres of sense-contact,11.2guttadvāro susaṁvuto;my sense doors are guarded and well restrained;1.3Aghamūlaṁ vamitvāna,I’ve ejected the root of gloom1.4patto me āsavakkhayo”ti.and attained the ending of defilements.

1.5… Pārāpariyo thero ….

Translator’s notes

  1. A brahmin teacher named Pārāsariya (also spelled Pārāpariya or Pārāsiviya) features in MN 152. In Ja 222 and Ja 353 another teacher warns that doing evil will lead to regret. The three similarly-named monks in the Theragāthā (Thag 1.116, Thag 16.2, Thag 16.10) share the same clan name (Sanskrit Pārāśarya) as descendants of the great sage Parāśara.

    ↩ thag1.116:1.1