AN 1.248–257Chapter Six
Pāli / Sanskrit:Chaṭṭhavagga
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Numbered Discourses 1 Chapter Six
“The foremost of my laymen in first going for refuge are the merchants Tapussa and Bhallika. … as a donor is the householder Sudatta Anāthapiṇḍika. … who speak on the teaching is the householder Citta Macchikāsaṇḍika. … who attract a congregation by the four ways of being inclusive is Hatthaka of Āḷavī. … who donate fine things is Mahānāma Sakka. … who donate nice things is the householder Ugga of Vesālī. … who attend on the Saṅgha is the householder Uggata of Elephant Village. … who have experiential confidence is Sūrambaṭṭha. … who have confidence in an individual is Jīvaka Komārabhacca. … who are intimate is the householder Nakula’s father.”
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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