SN 45.146–148The Moon, Etc.
Pāli / Sanskrit:Candimādisutta
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– Linked Discourses 45.146–148
– 11. Abbreviated Texts on Diligence
The Moon, Etc.
“The radiance of all the stars is not worth a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, so the moon’s radiance is said to be the best of them all. …”
“In the autumn, the heavens are sunny and cloudless. And as the sun is rising to the firmament, having dispelled all the darkness of space, it shines and glows and radiates. …”
“Mendicants, cloth from Kāsi is said to be the best kind of woven cloth. …”
(Tell these in full as in the section on the Realized One.)
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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