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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KULLAVAGGA.
VI, 14, 1.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to sit together on a long seat with others not entitled to sit on seats of equal height, unless they are women, or eunuchs, or hermaphrodites.'
Then the Bhikkhus thought, 'What is the limit of length which is included under the term "long seat?”
I allow the term "long seat" to be used, O Bhikkhus, of any seat long enough to accommodate three persons.'
14.
1. Now at that time Visakhả the mother of Migâra was anxious to have a storeyed building (på såda), with a verandah (âlinda) to it, supported on pillars with capitals of elephant heads 1, built for the use of the Samgha. Then the Bhikkhus thought,
Of things which appertain to a storeyed building, which has been permitted by the Blessed One, and which not??'
They told this matter to the Blessed One. · Hatthi-nakhakam, supported on the frontal globes (kumbhe) of elephants,' says Buddhaghosa.
? On the meaning of paribhoga here compare VI, 18, 1. The doubt here expressed is curious, as a storeyed building (pasada) is one of the five kinds of abodes (lenâni) specially sanctioned by Mahâvagga 1, 30, 4, and Kullavagga VI, 1, 2; and a verandah (âlinda) has been also authorised by Kullavagga VI, 3, 5. No doubt the special point here is as to the carved pillars : but, even so, that this rule should be thus separated from the other rules as to buildings, in the commencement of this book (VI, 1-4), is a proof of the unsystematic way in which the Khandhakas have been put together. Even the final redaction which we have now before us contains much similar evidence of the gradual growth of these rules. See note 3 on the next paragraph.
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