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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VID, 15,7.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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the Blessed One. And in the morning the Blessed One, having put on his under-garment, and being duly bowled and robed, vanished from the Getavana as quickly as a strong man would stretch forth his arm when it was drawn in, or draw it in again when it was stretched forth, and appeared in the mansion! of Visakhả the mother of Migâra. And the Blessed One took his seat on the seat spread out for him, and with him the company of the Bhikkhus.
6. Then said Visakhà the mother of Migara : . Most wonderful, most marvellous is the might and the power of the Tathāgata, in that though the floods are rolling on knee-deep, and though the floods are rolling on waist-deep, yet is not a single Bhikkhu wet, as to his feet, or as to his robes.' And glad and exalted in heart she served and offered with her own hand to the company of the Bhikkhus, with the Buddha at their head, sweet food, both hard and soft. And when the Blessed One had finished his meal, and had cleansed his hands and the bowl, she took her seat on one side. And, so sitting, she spake thus to the Blessed One :
'Eight are the boons, Lord, which I beg of the Blessed One.'
•The Tathagatas, O Visakha, are above granting boons (before they know what they are) ?.'
Proper, Lord, and unobjectionable are the boons I ask.'
Speak then, O Visakha.' 7. 'I desire, Lord, my life long to bestow robes
* Kotlhaka does not only mean a room, as given by Childers : it signifies here, as at Gâtaka I, 227, a battlemented dwelling, the house of a person of rank.
. See our note on this phrase at I, 54, 4.
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