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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(b) Bhiksus coming to a residence (S. 538-560)
When a guest-elder comes for residence to a monastery, he should make a discriminate request to the residents to make arrangements for their rest. The Elder of the Sangha should direct them all to be gentle and mild and should see that nobody loses anything of his own (S. 540). He should direct them all to their religious duties (S. 543). When the rainy season has drawn in, he should complete the necessary repairs to the living monastery, or encourage them when they are doing them (S, 544). He should look to their religious needs-religious talks or observations for religious silence. He should arrange for distribution of food according to their own arrangement for the same (S. 548-49) and control the dawdlers (mudhacarin) (S. 550). The Bhiksus should not talk to any one unless addressed, or unless the fore-going mendicant (purah-śramana) says something irreligious. They should join in religious actions and direct their assistants to collect the religious gifts made to them (S 559-60).
(c) The behaviour of a visitor-Bhiksu (S. 561-582)
A mendicant who visits the hoseholders' houses has to be gentle, genile (to their religious modes), smiling, mindful, averse to their irreligious behaviour, should welcome guests, offer seats and water, connive at some dis-agreeable actions, provided they do not affect him or others. But if they are prejudicial, he should reconcile the doers by telling them the corect way, or by insisting on some penitent actions. If he cannot do that himself, he should direct others to do it, but he should not offend others by using un-favourable words. He should amicably arrange, through friends, to get the evil action looked down upon and thus defeat the evil-doer.
Thus about a Bhiksu in the story of Initiation.
(d) All that concerns a Bhiksuņi (S. 582-615)
In the case of a Bhiksuņi, all the formal affairs that are to be done before initiation (pravrajya) by a Bhikṣu are to be