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96
KULLAVAGGA.
V, 11, 6.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a shoulderstrap, or of a piece of string, to tie the bags on with 1.'
62. Now at that time the Bhikkhus, when sewing their robes in the open air, were distressed by heat and by cold.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a hall or of a shed for the Kathina.'
The Kathina hall had too low a basement, and it was inundated with water.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make it with a high basement 3'
The facing (of the basement) fell in.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to line the basement with facing of three kinds - brick facing, stone facing, or wooden facing.'
They found difficulty in getting up into it. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of stairs of three kinds-brick stairs, stone stairs, or wooden stairs. As they were going up them they fell off. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a balustrades.'
1 See our note above on V, 9, 4.
. The whole of this paragraph is repeated below, though not in the same order, of the Kankama or cloister, and of the Gantâghara, or bath-house. (See V, 14, 2, 3.)
s That is, to build it on a raised platform, the technical term for which is kaya.
• See our note below on V, 14, 3. The whole passage recurs of the lining of a well at V, 16, 2, and of Vihar as themselves at VI, 3, 3.
• Alambana-bâham. At Mahâ-sudassana Sutta I, 59, there is
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |