Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
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

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V, 23, I. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS. 131
Then the Blessed One instructed (&c., as usual, see 21. 2, down to) she departed thence. And the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, after having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, small jars and brooms. You are not, O Bhikkhus, to make use of earthenware foot-scrubbers. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, three kinds of things to rub the feet with-to wit, sandstone', gravel1, and sea-foam ".'
2. [A similar paragraph ending]
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of fans and flower-stands 3.'
23.
1. Now at that time a mosquito-fan had come into the possession of the Samgha.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of mosquitofans.' -
A châmara (a tail of the Bos Gruniens or Tibetan ox, mounted on a stick, to be used by
1 Sakkharâ and kathala, the exact distinction between which two terms is not stated.
Samudda-phenaka. By this name are designated the bones of the cuttle-fish which, when cast up by the waves on the seashore, are not unlike petrified foam, and have actually been introduced from the East into use in Europe as a kind of rough natural soap; and are now sold for that purpose in most chemists' shops in England (compare Meerschaum). The same word is found in later Sanskrit works.
8 Tâlavantam. See Gâtaka I, 26, 5 (at the end); and compare tâlavantakam below, V, 29, 4.
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