1.23 Gosāla#

I—having eaten honey-rice
in a bamboo patch
and rightly grasping the aggregates’1
arising-disbanding—
will return to the hillside, intent
on seclusion.

Notes#


  1. The aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. See SN 22:48, SN 22:59, and SN 22:79. ↩︎

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