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ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS.
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me receive the pabbaggâ and upasa mpadâ ordinations from the Blessed One.'
'Come, O Bhikkhu,' said the Blessed One, 'well taught is the doctrine ; lead a holy life for the sake of the complete extinction of suffering. Thus this venerable person received the upasa mpadâ ordination.
33. And the Blessed One administered to the other Bhikkhus exhortation and instruction by discourses relating to the Dhamma. And the venerable Vappa, and the venerable Bhaddiya, when they received from the Blessed One such exhortation and instruction by discourses relating to the Dhamma, obtained the pure and spotless Eye of the Truth (that is to say, the following knowledge): Whatsoever is subject to the condition of origination is subject also to the condition of cessation.'
34. And having seen the Truth, having mastered the Truth, .... (&c., as in § 32), they thus spoke to the Blessed One: 'Lord, let us receive the pabbaggå and upasampadâ ordinations from the Blessed One.'
'Come, O Bhikkhus,' said the Blessed One, 'well taught is the doctrine ; lead a holy life for the sake of the complete extinction of suffering. Thus these venerable persons received the upasampadâ ordination.
35. And the Blessed One, living on what the Bhikkhus brought him, administered to the other Bhikkhus exhortation and instruction by discourse relating to the Dhamma; in this way the six persons lived on what the three Bhikkhus1 brought home from their alms pilgrimage.
1 Those three Bhikkhus of the five, who had been converted,
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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 |