AN 1.209–218Chapter Three
Pāli / Sanskrit:Tatiyavagga
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Numbered Discourses 1 Chapter Three
“The foremost of my monk disciples who want to train is Rāhula. … who went forth out of faith is Raṭṭhapāla. … who are the first to pick up a ballot slip is Kuṇḍadhāna. … who are eloquent poets is Vaṅgīsa. … who are impressive all around is Upasena son of Vaṅgantā. … who assign lodgings is Dabba Mallaputta. … who are beloved of the deities is Pilindavaccha. … with swift insight is Bāhiya of the Bark Cloth. … with brilliant speech is Kassapa the Prince. … who have attained the methods of textual analysis is Mahākoṭṭhita.”
The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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