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Theragāthā 1.42 Verses of the Senior Monks 1.42
Ekakanipāta The Book of the Ones
Pañcamavagga Chapter Five
Khadiravaniyattheragāthā Revata of the Acacia Wood
“Cāle upacāle sīsūpacāle (…), Cālā, Upacālā, Sīsupacālā— These are the three sisters whose verses are recorded respectively at SN 5.6 and Thig 7.2; SN 5.7 and Thig 7.3; SN 5.8 and Thig 8.1, with some confusion in the attributions. | The names are feminine vocative singular. Rhys Davids and Norman translated them as masculine following the commentary, despite the grammatical implausibility and the absence of any such male group of three elsewhere. True, there is a Cāla and Upacāla mentioned at AN 10.72:1.2, but despite the text’s claim, all the monks there are otherwise unknown.
Patissatā nu kho viharatha; meditate mindfully!
Āgato vo vālaṁ viya vedhī”ti. I’ve come to you like a hair-splitter. A more substantial set of verses is attributed to the same monk at Thag 14.1.
… Khadiravaniyo thero ….