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, 27, 3.
Samgha to them who have waited upon the sick. And thus, O Bhikkhus, are they to be assigned. The Bhikkhu who has waited upon the sick ought to go before the Samgha, and to say thus: "Such and such a Bhikkhu, Sirs, has completed his time. These are his set of robes and his bowl." Then a discreet and able Bhikkhu ought to lay the proposition before the Samgha, saying, "Let the Samgha hear me. Such and such a Bhikkhu has completed his time. These are his set of robes and his bowl. If it is convenient to the Samgha, let the Samgha assign this set of robes and this bowl to those who have waited upon the sick." This is the ñatti.' [Here follow the usual formal words of a kammavâkâ1]
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MAHAVAGGA.
3. Now at that time a certain Sâmanera had completed his time.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
[The decision and the kammavâkâ are the same as in § 2.]
4. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu and a Sâmanera waited upon a sick Bhikkhu; and while he was being waited upon by them he completed his time. And the Bhikkhu who had waited upon the sick thought: 'How now ought the due portion of robes be given to the Sâmanera who waited upon the sick?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you are to give an equal portion to a Sâmanera who waits upon the sick.'
5. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu who was
1 There is only one, not three Kammavâkâs, given in the text.
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