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, 15, 10.
opportunity of taking his food". But when he has partaken of the food I shall have provided for those who wait upon the sick, he will bring in food to the invalid in due time, and he will not lose his opportunity of taking his food. It was this circumstance, Lord, that I had in view in desiring to provide the Samgha my life long with food for those who wait upon the sick.
10. Moreover, Lord, if a sick Bhikkhu does not obtain suitable medicines his sickness may increase upon him, or he may die. But if a Bhikkhu have taken the medicines which I shall have provided for the sick, neither will his sickness increase upon him, nor will he die. It was this circumstance, Lord, that I had in view in desiring to provide the Samgha my life long with medicines for the sick.
'Moreover, Lord, the Blessed One when at Andhakavinda, having in view the ten advantages thereof, allowed the use of congey 2. It was those advantages I had in view, Lord, in desiring to provide the Samgha my life long with a constant supply of congey.
11. “Now, Lord, the Bhikkhunts are in the habit -of bathing in the river Akiravati with the courtesans, at the same landing-place, and naked. And the courtesans, Lord, ridiculed the Bhikkhunts, saying, "What is the good, ladies, of your maintaining 3 chastity when you are young ? are not the
i Bhattakkhedam karissati, because he may not eat solid food after sun-turn.
? See Mahavagga VI, 24. The ten advantages are enumerated in $ 5 there.
In the text read kinnena. Compare Bhikkhunf-vibhanga, Pakittiya XXI, 1, where the whole passage recurs. The first sentence also recurs ibid., Pâkittiya II.
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