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, 15, 1.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of all appurtenances to a storeyed building.'
Now at that time the grandmother of Pasenadi of Kosala had died, and many unauthorised things had come into the hands of the Samgha, such as couches, divans (&c., as in chapter 8 above, and Mahavagga V, 10, 4). They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to use the stuffed couches (à sandi) after having broken off the legs!, and the divans (pallańka) after having removed the hair, and to comb out the cotton of the mattresses and make pillows of it, and to use all the rest as floor covering .
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1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who dwelt in a certain country residence, not far from Sâvatthi, were worried by having constantly to provide sleeping accommodation for travelling Bhikkhus who came in (from country-places). And those Bhikkhus
Compare the 87th Pâkittiya. * This rule has already been given in VI, 2, 6.
• It is distinctly laid down without any reservation in Mahavagga V, 10, 5 (in the paragraph erroneously numbered V, 1o, 4 in vol. ii, p. 28, of the present work), that the use of any of these things is a dukkała offence. That this relaxation of that rule should be inserted only here, looks very much like an after-thought, even though the former passage merely refers to the use of these things as seats. This is more especially noteworthy from the fact mentioned in the last note.
The rules as to new rugs or mats to be used for sitting upon, are contained in the nth to the 15th Nissaggiya Påkittiyas.
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