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, 29, 4.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to fasten the phalaka cloth for the block on the edge of the robe, and to fasten the phalaka cloth for the chain seven or eight finger-breadths up the robe.'
4. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)
ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your under garments arranged as laymen do, nor arranged with appendages like elephant-trunks 1, nor arranged like fishing-nets, nor arranged with four corners showing 3, nor arranged like flower-stands, nor arranged like rows of jewelry. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
[Similar paragraph, ending]
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your upper
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1 Hatthi-sondakam nâma nabhi-mulato hatthi-sonda-santhânam olambakam katvâ nivattham, kolika-itthinam nivâsanam viya (B.).
Makkha-vâlakam nâma ekato dasantam ekato pâsantam olambitvâ nivattham (B.).
Katu-kannakam upari dve hetthato dve evam kattaro kanne dassetvâ nivattham (B.).
Tâla-vantakam nâma tâlavant'-âkârena såfakam olambitvâ nivâsanam (B.). See our note on tâlavanta above, V, 22, 2, and on âmalaka-vantika-pitham below, VI, 2, 4.
"Sata-vallikam nâma dîgha-sâtakam aneka-kkhattum obhaйgitva ovalikam karontena nivattham vâ, padakkhina-passesu vâ nirantaram valiyo dassetvâ nivattham. Sake pana gânuto palthâya eko vâ dve vâ valiyo paññâyanti, valati (B.). Compare vallikâ and ovaltikam at V, 2, 1. Buddhaghosa's second explanation would be possible if the reading were sata-valikam, and is probably only a pis aller, due to the difficulty of the first, which we have adopted doubtfully.
• Pârupati as opposed to nivâseti above. Compare Dhammapada, pp. 114, 376; Gâtaka, vol. i, p. 57, line 16.
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