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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V, 2, 3. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, ETC.
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a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.
2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes with edges of a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour.
People were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'These act like those who still enjoy the pleasures of the world.' The brethren told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Do not wear, O Bhikkhus, shoes that have edges of a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
3. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes with heel-coverings (?!); mocassins ?; laced boots 3; boots lined with cotton"; boots of various hues, like the wings of partridges b; boots pointed with rams' horns, and with goats' horns •; ornamented with scorpions'
1 All the names of boots or shoes are of doubtful meaning; and as the use of every sort of foot-covering has long been given up among those Buddhists who have preserved the use of the Pali language, Buddhaghosa's explanations are not very reliable. He says here : Khallaka-baddha 'ti panhi-pidhânattham tale khallakam bandhitvå kata.
: Pulabaddhå 'ti Yonaka-upâhana vukkati, yâva ganghato sabbapâdam patikkhâdeti.
s Paligunthimâ 'ti paligunthitvå katå upari-pâda-mattam eva pafikkhâdeti na gangham.
• Talapunnikå 'ti talapunnâ půretva kata. • Tittirapattikä 'ti tittira-patta-sadisa-vikitra-baddha.
• Menda-visâna-baddhika 'ti kannika- tthâne mendaka-singasanthâne vaddhe yogetvâ kata. Aga-visâna-vaddhikâdisu pi es' eva nayo.
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