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.
VIII, 3, 1.
took that woollen garment made half of Benares cloth and went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him, and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he sat down near him. Sitting near him, Glvaka Komârabhakka said to the Blessed One: 'Lord, this woollen garment made half of Benares cloth. ... has been sent to me by the king of Kasi. May the Blessed One, Lord, accept this woollen garment, which may be to me a long time for a good and a blessing. The Blessed One accepted that woollen garment.
And the Blessed One taught (&c., as in chap. 1, $ 34, down to :) and went away.
And the Blessed One, after having delivered a religious discourse in consequence of that, thus addressed the Bhikkhus :
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to use woollen garments.'
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1. At that time the fraternity got robes of different kinds. Now the Bhikkhus thought: "What robes are allowed to us by the Blessed One, and what robes are not allowed ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, six kinds of robes, viz.
conjectural. Buddhaghosa has the following note: 'Addhakâsi. yam, here kasi means one thousand; a thing that is worth one thousand, is called kasiya. This garment was worth five hundred; therefore it is called addhaka siya. And for the same reason it is said, upaddhakâsinam khamamânam.' Perhaps vikasikam at VI, 15, 5 may have some connection with the word used here.
1 See last note.
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