Women Of Words 06 - The Terigaadha Comments

Ancient Tamil, Sinhalese, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Thulu.

There is another school of thought that the Teravada Buddhism prevailed predominantly in the South India and Sri Lanka. And that the Terigaadha poets were Sinhalese and South Indian Nuns and the Terigaadha poems we're composed in Tamil

It goes to the credit of Buddhism that the Terigaadha survives as a Buddhist Text, though not spoken about.

Many scholars are of the opinion that Terigaadha is better poetry than Teragaadha poems by the monks.

Terigaadha and Teragaadha are books of scriptures in Teravaada sect of Buddhism. While, as we have seen, Terigaadha are the poems of the Nuns, Terigaadha are the scriptures by the Monks.

The lipi used to write the Terigaadha poems in Pali was Brahmi Lipi.

It is understood that the Terigaadha poems originally composed in Magadhi language and passed on from generation to generation orally, until about 80 BC, it was reduced to writing by the monks or nuns in Pali language.