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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MAHÂVAGGA.
II, 34, 11.
they do not ask; having not asked, they hold Uposatha together : (in this case) they are free from offence. They ask; having asked, they do not go through the matter; having not gone through the matter, they hold U posatha together : this is a dukkata offence. They ask, &c. (as in the last case), they hold Uposatha apart: (in this case) they are free from offence.
11. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, the incoming Bhikkhus see resident Bhikkhus belonging to the same district. They take them as belonging to a different district; taking them, &c. they do not ask; having not asked, they hold Uposatha together : this is a dukkata offence. They ask; having asked, they go through the matter; having gone through the matter, they hold U posatha apart: this is a dukkata offence. They ask, &c. (as in the last case), they hold Uposatha together: (in this case) they are free from offence.
12. In case, O Bhikkhus, the resident Bhikkhus see incoming Bhikkhus belonging to a different district, &c. (see § 10).
13. In case, O Bhikkhus, the resident Bhikkhus see incoming Bhikkhus belonging to the same district, &c. (see § 11).'
35.
1. “You ought not, O Bhikkhus, to go on the day of U posatha from a residence in which Bhikkhus are, to a residence in which no Bhikkhus are, except with a Samgha' or in a case of danger?. You ought not,
T.e. with a number of Bhikkhus sufficient for holding Uposatha. ? See chap. 15. 4.
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