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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MAHÂVAGGA.
VI, 33, 3.
The Samgha appoints the Vihara called N. N. to be our kappiya-bhậmi. Let any one of the venerable brethren who is in favour of appointing the Vihâra (&c., down to :) thus I understand.”
3. Now at that time men in that place - the kappiya-bhami duly chosen by resolution (of the Samgha)-boiled congey, and boiled rice, and mixed curries, and cut up meat, and split fire-wood. And when the Blessed One, as the night was passing away, rose up, he heard a great and loud noise, as of the cawing of crows. On hearing this he asked the venerable Ånanda: 'What now, Ânanda, may be this great and loud noise, as of the cawing of crows?'
4. 'In that place, Lord,—the kappiya-bhumi duly chosen by resolution (of the Samgha),- men are now boiling congey, and boiling rice, and mixing curries, and cutting up meat, and splitting fire-wood. Thence, Lord, comes that great and loud noise, as of the cawing of crows.'
Then the Blessed One, in that connection, and on that account, after he had delivered a religious discourse, said to the Bhikkhus :
A kappiya-bhůmi, O Bhikkhus, duly chosen, is not to be made use of. Whosoever shall so use it, is guilty of a dukkata offence. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a kappiya-bhūmi of three kinds, one that has become so by means of a proclamation",
1 Buddhaghosa says: on this word: When a Vihara is to be erected on piles, or the foundations of its walls are to be dug out, and the stones on which it is to rest are already laid, then when the first pile or the first stone of the walls is put upon them, the men standing round in a body proclaim “Let us make a kappiyaku/1."The proclamation cannot be made after the building has got further than the actual stage here described. Ussa vana is
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