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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MAHAVAGGA.
VIII, 4, 3.
of these Bhikkhus went off (the road) to a cemetery in order to get themselves pamsukala robes; some (other) Bhikkhus waited for them. Those Bhikkhus who had gone to the cemetery for pamsukala robes, got themselves pamsukalas; those Bhikkhus who had waited, said to them : 'Friends, give us also a part (of your pamsukulas).' They replied, 'We will not give you a part, friends; why did you not also go off (to the cemetery) ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you give a part (even) against your will to Bhikkhus who have waited!
3. At that time a number of Bhikkhus were travelling on the road in the Kosala country. Some of these Bhikkhus went aside first from the road) to a cemetery in order to get themselves pamsukala robes; some (other) Bhikkhus went aside later. Those Bhikkhus who had gone first to the cemetery for pamsukala robes, got themselves pamsukalas; those Bhikkhus who had got off later, did not get any, and said to the other ones): 'Friends, give us also a part.' They replied, 'We will not give you a part, friends; why did you get off (to the cemetery) after us?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you are not obliged to give a part against your will to Bhikkhus who have gone (to the cemetery) later (than yourselves).'
4. At that time a number of Bhikkhus were travelling on the road in the Kosala country. They went altogether off (the road) to a cemetery in order to get themselves pamsukala robes; some of the Bhikkhus got pamsukalas, other Bhikkhus did not
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