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66
KULLAVAGGA.
V, 1, 1.
FIFTH KHANDHAKA.
ON THE Daily LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
1. Now at that time the Blessed One was staying at Râgagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, in the Kalandaka Nivâpa. And at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus, when bathing, used to rub their bodies—thighs, and arms, and breast, and back-against wood. The people were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the Sakyaputtiya Samanas do so, like wrestlers, boxers, or shampooers??' The Bhikkhus heard the people so murmuring, &c.; and they told the matter to the Blessed One.
Then the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, having convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha, asked the Bhikkhus : 'Is this true, O Bhikkhus, what they say, that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus, when bathing, rub (&c., as before)?'
It is true, Lord.'
1 Ugghamseti. The simple verb occurs below, V, 9, 2, 4, X, 10, 2, and at Gâtaka, vol. i, p. 190. It is the Sanskrit root gharsh.
? On malla-mutthikâ Buddhaghosa merely says mutthikamalla. His note on gâma-poddavà (already given by H. O. at p. 315 of the edition to the text) says, 'town's people given to adorning themselves by painting their skin' (on which compare below, V, 2, 5). But it is difficult to see how that fits in with the connection here,
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