Abstract:
Therī Gātā is a recreation of the stark truth of transience the Therīs have inevitably
experienced in the secular world in the form of poetry. The philosophy presented through
their understanding of transience and the rhetoric through which they have presented their
experiences of renunciation include poetics and noetics into these poetry of the nuns at the
time of the Buddha. Thērī Subhā‘s verses where her eyes which are appreciated to be similar
to a ‗kinnari‘ inside a mountain and to a bud of a blue lotus, have immediately been turned to
be a little ball set in a hollow with tears and eye secretion could be pointed out as a beautiful
example of the blend of poetics and noetics in the Therī gātā. The present work thus expects
to study various instances in the Therī gātā where poetics and noetics have been used, with
the main objective of finding out the possibility for them to be categorized with the
mainstream literature of the present world and thus introducing them to the school and
university syllabi. The research thus falls into the category of qualitative type of research and
thus an extensive study of the related literature to the topic under concerned was carried out.
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