AN 1.235–247Chapter Five
Pāli / Sanskrit:Pañcamavagga
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Numbered Discourses 1 Chapter Five
“The foremost of my nun disciples in long standing is Mahāpajāpati Gotamī. … with great wisdom is Khemā. … with psychic power is Uppalavaṇṇā. … who have memorized the monastic law is Paṭācārā. … who speak on the teaching is Dhammadinnā. … who practice absorption is Nandā. … who are energetic is Soṇā. … with clairvoyance is Sakulā. … with swift insight is Bhaddā of the Curly Hair. … who recollect past lives is Bhaddā daughter of Kapila. … who have attained great insight is Bhaddakaccānā. … who wear coarse robes is Kisāgotamī. … who are committed to faith is Siṅgāla’s Mother.”
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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