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MAHẬ-PARINIBBÂNA-SUTTA.
III
Birth Stories," p. 147). He accepted this, and walking up and down in a quiet part of the grove, he thought and meditated upon it, till overcoming the Evil Spirit, he had acquired Arahatship, and with it the discriminating knowledge of all the Scriptures (Patisambhidâ). Then, returning, he came and took his seat beside the Blessed One.'
According to this, no set ceremony for ordination (Sanghakammam), as laid down in the Vinaya, took place; and it is otherwise probable that no such ceremony was usual in the earliest days of Buddhism.
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