The homage to the Blessed One, chanted three times, opening the Twelve Tamnan as it opens the daily services.
- When chanted
- Chanted three times at the opening of a paritta service, after the devas have been assembled.
A note on this chant. The book prints this chant in Pali only, with no Thai translation. The English here is a working translation prepared for this edition — it is not the book's own, and has not yet been checked by a teacher.
Historical background
The third full printing of this single line in the book, after the morning service and the evening. It is set out in full again for the same reason as before: this section is used on its own, and the page has to work for somebody chanting from it without turning back.
What is different here is not the words but the company. By the time it is said, an audience has already been called.
Meaning and purpose
The line is unchanged — homage, and then the Blessed One under three epithets, spoken of rather than spoken to.
Its position changes what it does. In the daily services this is the first thing anybody says. Here something has happened first: the devas of every world-system have been invited, and the homage is made in front of them.
Three times, as everywhere else in the book, marking that something has been formally begun rather than merely started.
The chant
As the book prints it: page 77 →
page 77นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.
นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.
นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ ฯ
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa.
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.