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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They told this matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make a separate
room for the fire at one side.'
KULLAVAGGA.
VI, 3, 10.
The fire-room had too low a basement (&c., as in V, 11, 6, as to flooring, stairs, and balustrade, followed by the paragraph as to the door, and the facing, as in V, 14, 3, &c.).
10. Now at that time the Arâmas had no fences to them, and goats and cattle injured the plantations1. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to surround them with fencing of three kinds-bamboo fences, thorn fences, and ditches.'
There was no gateway (kotthaka), and goats and cattle, even so, injured the plantations.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a gateway, with gates made of stakes interlaced with thorny brakes, with fences (across the gateway) made of the akka plant, with ornamental screen-work over the gateway, and with bars.'
[Then the paragraphs allowing the roofing, &c., of this kotthaka as in V, 11, 6, and drains for the Ârâma, as in V, 14, 3.]
11. Now at that time Seniya Bimbisâra, the king of Magadha, wanted to build a pâsâda (residence),
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1 Uparope. Compare Uparopaka at Gâtaka II, 345.
Apesiyam. See p. 321 of the edition of the text, reading of course kanthaka.
Akkavâ/a, on which Buddhaghosa says nothing. A kind of dress made from the stalks of the akka plant is mentioned in Mahâvagga VIII, 28, 2.
Tosana, which is the ornamental erection over a gateway of which such excellent examples in stone have been found at the Sânchi and Bharhut Topes.
The exact meaning of the word Pâsâda at the time when this
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