Summary: The Therīgāthā ("Verses of the Elder Nuns") is the ninth 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 Therīgāthā is a collection of verses associated with elder nuns. Its poems preserve canonical voices of women renunciants speaking about household life, loss, practice, insight, and liberation. Because the collection is both literary and biographical in presentation, the local wiki should normalize speaker headings, verse ranges, and related-person links only after a dedicated review pass.
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 nun divisions, verse numbering, cross-references, and supporting pages is deferred.
Source reader
The current raw reader uses BJT page-entry identifiers such as kn-thig: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 Therīgāthā as a single Khuddaka source unit. Later batches should only split this overview into reviewed subunits after the internal nipāta, nun-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 Therīgāthā. The batch extracted 777 BJT Pali rows and 775 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.