Summary: The Theragāthā ("Verses of the Elder Monks") is the eighth book of the khuddaka nikaya. In the local corpus it is currently available as a raw BJT Pali/Sinhala source reader, preserving the native tipitaka.lk page-entry segmentation rather than a fully edited wiki text rendering.
Overview
The Theragāthā is a collection of verses associated with elder monks. Many poems are voiced as recollections of practice, renunciation, struggle, seclusion, insight, and release. The collection is especially valuable because it preserves named monastic voices inside the canonical verse tradition, while still requiring care before the local wiki normalizes poem boundaries, speaker headings, and cross-references.
This page is an overview page only. The raw BJT Pali source and Sinhala translation have been ingested and reviewed, but a full text-page presentation with normalized elder divisions, verse numbering, cross-references, and supporting pages is deferred.
Source reader
The current raw reader uses BJT page-entry identifiers such as kn-thag:1.5. The BJT Pali and Sinhala native entry counts do not align perfectly in this extract, so the parallel reader uses a union of segment identifiers and displays explicit missing-edition placeholders where one side has no matching row.
Structure
At this overview stage the local wiki treats the Theragāthā as a single Khuddaka source unit. Later batches should only split this overview into reviewed subunits after the internal nipāta, elder-name, and verse-numbering conventions have been checked carefully against the raw source.
Textual status
This page is backed by the reviewed raw-only Tipitaka.lk Stage 1 ingest for Theragāthā. The batch extracted 2245 BJT Pali rows and 2247 BJT Sinhala rows from pathnirvana/tipitaka.lk; the row-count mismatch is recorded as a source-alignment fact, not normalized away. Sinhala republication status remains pending verification, so the Sinhala text is exposed locally through the reader but is not treated here as a public republication-ready translation.