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Gosāla

Gosālattheragāthā

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

  • 0.1Theragāthā 1.23Verses of the Senior Monks 1.23
  • 0.2EkakanipātaThe Book of the Ones
  • 0.3TatiyavaggaChapter Three

0.4GosālattheragāthāGosāla

1.1“Ahaṁ kho veḷugumbasmiṁ,I’ll eat honey and milk-rice1.2bhutvāna madhupāyasaṁ;in Veḷugumba.1.3Padakkhiṇaṁ sammasanto,And then, dexterously probing11.4khandhānaṁ udayabbayaṁ;the rise and fall of the aggregates,1.5Sānuṁ paṭigamissāmi,I’ll return to my forest hill1.6vivekamanubrūhayan”ti.and foster seclusion.

1.7… Gosālo thero ….

Translator’s notes

  1. According to the commentary, padakkhiṇaṁ is to be taken adverbially. The sense metaphorically reinforces the rare verb sammasanto: dakkh is “right handed, dextrous”, mas is “stroke, probe”.

    ↩ thag1.23:1.3