Thag 2.26Puṇṇamāsa (2nd)
Pāli / Sanskrit:Puṇṇamāsattheragāthā
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– THERAGĀTHĀ
– BOOK OF THE TWOS
2.26. Puṇṇamāsa
BJT 171“Having abandoned the five hindrances to attain safety from bondage, and having taken up the mirror of the Dhamma through which one knows and sees oneself …
BJT 172“… I contemplated this body, entirely inside and out, my own and that of others; the body was seen as empty.”
The venerable elder Puṇṇamāsa spoke these verses thus.
The verses of the elder Puṇṇamāsa.
Translated by Bhikkhu Indacanda , 2011 . Based on the Buddha Jayanthi edition of the Pali canon, as corrected by Bhikkhu Indacanda. Full text, translation, and notes are available at the translator’s website: http://tamtangpaliviet.net/.
Used by kind permission of the translator.
Prepared for SuttaCentral by Blake Walsh.
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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