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MAHÂVAGGA.
I, 32, 1.
confer the upasampadâ ordination (saying), “We have, &c ?” (Thus) ignorant upagghầyas are found, &c. This will not do, O Bhikkhus, for converting the unconverted and for augmenting the number of the converted.'
Having rebuked those Bhikkhus and delivered a religious discourse, he thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'Let no ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, confer the upasam padâ ordination. If he does, he is guilty of a dukkata offence. I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that only a learned, competent Bhikkhu who has completed ten years, or more than ten years, may confer the upasampadâ ordination.'
32.
1. At that time some Bhikkhus whose upag. ghayas were gone away, or had returned to the world, or had died, or were gone over to a (schismatic) faction, as they had no âkariyas and received no exhortation and instruction, went on their rounds for alms wearing improper under and upper garments (&c., as in chap. 25. 1-6, down to :), he thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, (that young Bhikkhus choose) an âkariya?
1 Buddhaghosa can scarcely be right in explaining pakkhasamkanta by titthiya pakkha samkanta. . ? A kariya as well as upagghầya means 'teacher,' or 'preceptor.' It is very difficult or rather impossible to draw a sharp line of distinction between â kariya and upagghaya. The duties of an â kariya towards his antevâsika, and of an antevâsika towards his â kariya, as indicated in chaps. 32, 33 (=Kullavagga VIII, 13, 14), are exactly the same as those of an upagghaya
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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 |