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The Therigatha ( Verses of the Elder Nuns) is a collection of short poems by and about the early enlightened women in Buddhism. These women were the theris (senior ones) among ordained Buddhist women. They bore that epithet due to their religious achievements. Most of the gatha (poems) in the anthology are the songs of their experiences. With some of its poems dating as early as the late sixth century BC, while the poems of the Therigatha are clearly nowhere near as old as the poetry of the Rg Veda, for example, which had been orally transmitted since the second millennium BC, the poems in the Therigatha are still some of the earliest anthologies in India. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"95341","attributes":{"alt":"Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside)
