The Therigatha, often translated as Verses of the Elder Nuns (Pāli: theri elder (feminine) + gatha verse), is a Buddhist scripture, a collection of short poems supposedly recited by early members of the Buddhist sangha in India around 600 BC. In the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, the Therigatha is classified as part of the Khuddaka Nikaya, the...
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(from the article `Khuddaka Nikaya`) 8. and 9. Theragatha/Therigatha (`Hymns of the Elders/Senior Nuns`), lyrics of 264 monks and some 100 nuns. The latter verses are informative about ... ...and didactic poems, in the form of dialogues and ballads; they are composed in a metre akin to the Sanskrit loka. Of great interest are ...
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