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Theragāthā 1.116 Verses of the Senior Monks 1.116
Ekakanipāta The Book of the Ones
Dvādasamavagga Chapter Twelve
Pārāpariyattheragāthā Pārāsariya (1st)
“Chaphassāyatane hitvā, I’ve given up the six spheres of sense-contact, A brahmin teacher named Pārāsariya (also spelled Pārāpariya or Pārāsiviya) features in MN 152. In Ja 222 and Ja 353 another teacher warns that doing evil will lead to regret. The three similarly-named monks in the Theragāthā (Thag 1.116, Thag 16.2, Thag 16.10) share the same clan name (Sanskrit Pārāśarya) as descendants of the great sage Parāśara.
guttadvāro susaṁvuto; my sense doors are guarded and well restrained;
Aghamūlaṁ vamitvāna, I’ve ejected the root of gloom
patto me āsavakkhayo”ti. and attained the ending of defilements.
… Pārāpariyo thero ….