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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RULLAVAGGA.
VI, 9, 2.
at Savatthi, the Blessed One stayed in the Getavana, the park of Anatha Pindika. Then Anatha Pindika the householder [invited the Blessed One for the morrow's meal, and when the meal was over, he said to the Blessed One 1]:
What, Lord, shall I do with regard to the Getavana ?'
You may dedicate it, О householder, to the use of the Samgha of the four directions either now here present, or hereafter to arrive.'
Even so, Lord, said Anatha Pindika the householder in assent to the Blessed One, and he did so.
2. Then the Blessed One gave thanks to Anâtha Pindika the householder in these verses. [Here follow the same verses as were used above in VI, 1, 5 on the presentation of the Getavana.]
10.
1. Now at that time it had been settled that a certain high official at court, a follower of the Âgivakas, should provide the day's meal for the Samgha. And the venerable U pananda the Sakyan, coming late, but before the meal was over, made the Bhikkhu next (junior to him in seniority *) get
1 The usual terms are here followed throughout: see, for instance, above, VI, 4, 6, 7.
. That is of all the world.' See our note above on Mahavagga VIII, 27, 5, where the phrase has already occurred.
The verses are quoted in the account of Anatha Pindika's gift given in the Gâtaka commentary (Fausböll I, 93; Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 131).
Ânantarikam; perhaps the Bhikkhu (who happened to be)
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