Atthakatha

The Commentaries
(selected texts)

• Therigatha Atthakatha — Commentary to the Therigatha
  • Therigatha Commentary (ThigA X.1) — Skinny Gotami and the Mustard Seed [Olendzki]. In this famous parable a mother, blinded by grief over her dead son, asks the Buddha for medicine to cure her son's condition. The Buddha's cure works better than she could ever have imagined.