The short running order for the chanting before a meal, four items long.
- When chanted
- Followed by the Sangha after the precepts have been given and before the meal is taken.
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 briefest running order in the book, and the one used most often. It picks up exactly where the giving of the precepts ends.
Each item is named by its opening words and its closing words, which is how every order in this section identifies a chant.
Meaning and purpose
Four things, in fixed order: the homage three times; the virtues of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha beginning itipi so bhagavā; the Jayamaṅgala verses beginning bāhuṃ; and the Jayaparitta beginning mahākāruṇiko nātho.
It runs on without a break into bhavatu sabbamaṅgalaṃ, so the blessing and the closing are treated as one item rather than two.
Nothing is optional and nothing is chosen. Where the anumodanā after the meal varies with the occasion, the chanting before it does not — which is why this page can be four lines long and the pages around it run to twenty.
The chant
As the book prints it: page 264 →
page 264เมื่อประธานให้ศีลเสร็จแล้ว นำสวดดังต่อไปนี้
When the one presiding has finished giving the precepts, he leads the chanting as follows:
นะมะการะปาฐะ คือ นะโม ฯเปฯ 3 จบ
The homage passage, that is namo … three times.
อิติปิ โส ภะคะวา ฯเปฯ อะนุตตะรัง ปุญญักเขตตัง โลกัสสาติ.
Itipi so bhagavā … ending anuttaraṃ puññakkhettaṃ lokassāti.
พาหุง สะหัสสะมะภินิมมิตะสาวุธันตัง ฯเปฯ โมกขัง สุขัง อะธิคะเมยยะ นะโร สะปัญโญ.
Bāhuṃ sahassamabhinimmitasāvudhantaṃ … ending mokkhaṃ sukhaṃ adhigameyya naro sapañño.
มะหาการุณิโก นาโถ ฯเปฯ ละภันตัตเถ ปะทักขิเณ ภะวะตุ สัพพะมังคะลัง ต่อไปจนถึง สะทา โสตถี ภะวันตุ เต.
Mahākāruṇiko nātho … ending labhantatthe padakkhiṇe; then bhavatu sabbamaṅgalaṃ, on to sadā sotthī bhavantu te.