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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VI, 1, 5.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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4. And when the Setthi of Râgagaha had completed those sixty dwelling-places, he went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and [invited him and the Bhikkhu Samgha for the morrow's meal; and so on, as usual", down to the time when, after the meal, the Setthi] said to the Blessed One :
I have had, Lord, these sixty dwelling-places made for the sake of merit, and for the sake of heaven. What am I to do, Lord, with respect to them ?'
“Then, O householder, dedicate these sixty dwelling-places to the Samgha of the four directions, whether now present, or hereafter to arrive.'
‘Even so, Lord !' said the Setthi of Râgagaha, in assent to the Blessed One, and he dedicated those sixty dwelling-places to the use of the Samgha of the four directions whether present or to come s.'
5. Then the Blessed One gave thanks to the Setthi of Rågagaha in these verses * : '1. Cold he wards off and heat, so also beasts of
prey, And creeping things and gnats, and rains in
the wet season. And when the dreaded heated winds arise,
they are kept off.
See, for instance, Mahâvagga VI, 30, or Kullavagga V, 27. * Literally, 'establish' (palilthâ pehi).
* This formula of dedication has been constantly found in rockinscriptions in India and Ceylon over the ancient cave-dwellings of Buddhist hermits. See Rh. D. in the Indian Antiquary' for May, 1872.
• The following verses recur below at VI, 9, 2; and also in that connection in the Gataka Commentary, I, 93.
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