CHAPTER OF POEMS WITH NINE VERSES

Verses 204-212: Vaḍḍhamātā: ‘Vaḍḍha’s mother’

We publish Vaḍḍha’s mother’s verses in the Theragāthā preceding Vaḍḍha’s verses 335-339. We agree with Norman and Winternitz that these groups of verses have been arbitrarily divided. It seems that Vaḍḍha, not his mother, collated or composed the verses, because he has the last word in both poems, so they belong to the Theragāthā not the Therīgāthā.