Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
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

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I, 29, 3. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 171
doned himself to bad conduct. The Bhikkhus said to him: 'You ought not to do so, friend; it is not becoming.'
He replied: 'I never asked you, Sirs, saying, “Confer on me the upasam pada ordination.” Why have you ordained me without your being asked ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Let no one, O Bhikkhus, ordain a person unless he has been asked to do so. He who does, commits a dukkata offence. I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you ordain only after having been asked.
2. 'And (a Bhikkhu) ought to be asked in this way: Let him who desires to receive the upasampadâ ordination, go to the Samgha, adjust his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder, salute the feet of the Bhikkhus with his head, sit down squatting, raise his joined hands, and say: "I ask the Samgha, reverend Sirs, for the upasam padâ ordination ; might the Samgha, reverend Sirs, draw me out (of the sinful world) out of compassion towards me.” And for the second time, &c.; and for the third time let him ask, &c.
3. “Then let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following ñatti before the Samgha: "Let the Samgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. This person N. N. desires to receive the u pasam padâ ordination from the venerable N. N.; N. N. asks the Samgha for the upasampada ordination with N. N. as upagghầya. If the Samgha is ready, &c."”!
Here follows the complete formula of a ñattikatuttha kamma, as in chap. 28. 4-6. The only difference is, that here in the natti, as well as in the three questions, the words 'N. N. asks the Samgha for the upasampadâ ordination with N. N. as upagghầya' are inserted after the words ' desires to receive the upasampada ordination from the venerable N. N.'
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