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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1, 39, 7. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 193
conferred on him the pabbaggâ and upasampada ordinations; and the Bhikkhus nursed him, and Givaka Komârabhakka cured him. When he had become free from sickness, he returned to the world. Now Givaka Komârabhakka saw this person that had returned to the world; and when he saw him he asked that person : 'Had you not embraced the religious life, Sir, among the Bhikkhus ?'
*Yes, doctor.' ‘And why have you adopted such a course, Sir?'
Then that man told Glvaka Komârabhakka the whole matter.
6. Then Givaka Komârabhakka was annoyed, murmured, and became angry: 'How can the venerable brethren confer the pabbaggâ ordination on a person affected with the five diseases ?'
And Givaka Komârabhakka went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him and having respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he sat down near him. Sitting near him, Givaka Komârabhakka said to the Blessed One: 'Pray, Lord, let their reverences not confer the pabbaggâ ordination on persons affected with the five diseases.'
7. Then the Blessed One taught, incited, animated, and gladdened Givaka Komârabhakka by religious discourse; and Givaka Komârabhakka, having been taught .... and gladdened by the Blessed One by religious discourse, rose from his seat, respectfully saluted the Blessed One, and passing round him with his right side towards him, went away.
In consequence of that and on this occasion the Blessed One, after having delivered a religious discourse, thus addressed the Bhikkhus : 'Let no one,
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