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NISSAGGIYÂ PÂKITTIYA DHAMMÂ.
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make it up to you, friends, in some way or other!' If that Bhikkhu ", having thus spoken, should make it up to them in any way, even by the contents of a begging bowl—that is a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture.
28. In case a robe should fall to the lot of a Bhikkhu, as a special gift 3, ten days before the Kattika-temasa 3 full moon, that Bhikkhu may take it, considering it as a special gift: and when he has it, he may keep it up till the robe time 3.
1 In the text read Evañ ka so bhikkhu.
* Anupadaggeyya is a double potential. Daggâma would be equal to Sanskrit dadyâma; and to that a second potential termination has been added.
3 The expression in the Pali is literally should a special robe come to a Bhikkhu,' &c.; where 'special robe' is akkeka-kivaram, explained in the Samanta-Pâsâdika (Minayeff, 83) as equal to akkâyika-kivaram. The Vibhanga says, If a man wants to join the army or to emigrate, or if a man has fallen sick, or a woman is with child, or an unbeliever has come to believe, or a believer is edified (pasado uppanno hoti); then, if such a one send a messenger to the Bhikkhus, saying, “Let their reverences come hither, I will give a gift for the rainy season" (vassâvâsikam; perhaps, such a gift as the laity are wont to give to the Bhikkhus who have spent the vassa among them")—that is an akkeka-kivaram' (Minayeff, 82, 83). Akkaya is an immediate, threatening, danger: compare the expression 'donatio mortis causâ.' 'Special robe' is, no doubt, an inadequate rendering ; but we have chosen it in reference to the special circumstances under which the donation is made, and in default of a better translation. Compare the 85th Pâkittiya.
The Kattika-temasi-punnamâ is, according to the Vibhanga (Minayeff, p. 82), the close of the Pavâranâ, the ceremony at the end of Vassa (see below, Book IV).
The robe time is the time when the robes were settled. The Vibhanga says, Robe time is, if the robes have not been laid out to dry (see the note to the first rule in this division of the Pâtimokkha), the last month of the rains; if they have, it is five months,'
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |