Vinay Sutra And Auto Comentary On Same

SR No.: 002451
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P V Bapat, V V Gokhale
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Total Pages: 134
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 13 MB

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(who then takes the place of his parents). He is told of the right moment of having a human life when all the eight17 wrong moments are discarded (S. 68). The right process is that he takes shelter in the Three Refuges, is given the necessary advice in secret, while he is sitting on the soles of his feet reclining on a brick. He sits with his bowl on the left palm and covers it with his right palm during this process. (S. 69).
Thus (ends) the process of ordination.
(iii) Authority (niḥśrayagatam) (S. 70-102)
One who is depending upon an authority should not do any of his tasks without his permission, except actions of easing or defecating himself, throwing out used tooth-sticks, or paying respects to places of worship in monasteries with their enclosures extending over forty-nine fathoms (vyama) (S. 70-72). This, however, does not prevent him from doing natural actions such as talking, replying or wiping off, with his sweaty hands, the legs, face or chest, or filling the waterpot. The actions for which he is to be particularly anxious are about clothes and begging-bowl, attendance upon sick persons, avoiding evil actions, abandoning evil ways of thinking etc. (S. 73). He has to see that no Bhiksu with less than ten years seniority will act as an upadhyaya, or authority (niḥśraya), or stay without the support of an authority (anihśrita). If the authority has fulfilled the condition of ten years seniority, then his good conduct and learning will, if necessary, help him to attain the five necessary conditions (S. 81). His other qualifications are : his knowledge of Piţakas, his qualification in the cultivation of conduct, of mind and wisdom, his knowledge of Pratimokṣa, his knowledge of conduct, mind, wisdom, deliverance and insight into it, his energy and wisdom combined with mindfulness, humility (pratisamlinatva) and composure, his state of going beyond training, his knowledge of the different states of proficiency
17. For Akṣaṇa compare Akkhaṇa-sutta in A. iv. 226-227.