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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VIII, 9, 3.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that they should be distributed by the assembled Samgha.'
At that time the whole Samgha, when distributing the clothes, made a bustle.
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you appoint a Bhikkhu possessed of the following five qualities, to distribute the clothes : (a person) who does not go in the evil course of lust .... and who knows what is distributed and what is not.
"And you ought, О Bhikkhus, to appoint (&c., see chap. 5, § 2).
2. Now the Bhikkhus appointed to distribute the clothes thought: 'In what way are we to distribute the clothes ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you first assort the clothes, estimate them, share them according to their higher or lower value', then count the Bhikkhus, divide them into troops, and divide the portions of cloth (accordingly).'
Now the Bhikkhus, who were to distribute the clothes, thought: "What portion of cloth shall be given to the Sâmaneras ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
*I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you give to the Sâmaneras half a portion.'
Buddhaghosa: "If there are robes of the same quality, for instance, each worth ten (kâhâpanas), for all Bhikkhus, it is all right; if they are not, they must take together the robes which are worth nine or eight, with those which are worth one or two, and thus they must make equal portions.'
* In case the day should not suffice for distributing the robes to the Bhikkhus one by one' (Buddhaghosa).
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