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, 17, 4.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
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them indoors; and cooked them indoors of his own accord, and offered them to the Blessed One, saying, 'Let the Blessed One drink this Tekatula gruel.
2. Now the Tathagatas sometimes ask about what they know (&c., as usual, as, for instance, in I, 31, 5, down to the end).
And the Blessed One said to the venerable Ånanda, 'Whence, Ånanda, is this gruel ?'
Then the venerable Ananda told this thing to the Blessed One.
3. The Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, *This is improper, Ananda, unbecoming, unsuitable, unworthy of Samanas, not allowable, and ought to be avoided. How can you, Ananda, think (of permitting yourself) such abundance? Whatever, Ânanda, is kept indoors, is not allowed; whatever is cooked indoors, is not allowed; and whatever is cooked of your own accord, is not allowed. This will not redound, Ananda, to the conversion of the unconverted.'
And when he had rebuked him, and delivered a religious discourse, he said to the Bhikkhus: *Whatsoever is kept indoors, O Bhikkhus, or cooked indoors, or cooked of your own accord, is not to be eaten. Whosoever shall eat thereof, is guilty of a dukkata offence.
4. And if, O Bhikkhus, there be food kept indoors, or cooked indoors, or cooked of your own accord, and one shall eat thereof, he is guilty of three dukkata offences. If, O Bhikkhus, food kept indoors, and cooked indoors, shall have been so cooked by others, and one eat thereof, he is guilty of two dukkata offences. If, O Bhikkhus, food kept indoors, shall have been cooked out of doors, and
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