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, 31, 2.
venerable Sâriputta, asked him, saying, 'I sent to the venerable Thera a robe. Did that robe come into his hands?'
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MAHAVAGGA.
'I know nothing, friend, about that robe.'
Then the venerable Revata said to that Bhikkhu: 'I sent a robe, my friend, in your charge to the Thera. Where is that robe?'
'I took the robe myself, Lord, in trust upon you.'
They told the matter to the Blessed One.
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu send a robe in charge of a Bhikkhu, saying, "Give this robe to such and such a Bhikkhu;" and he, whilst on the way, takes it himself in trust on the one who sends it-then it is rightly taken. But if he takes it himself in trust on the one to whom it was sent, it is wrongly taken.
[The same repeated, the latter case being put first, and the former case last.]
'Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu send a robe in charge of a Bhikkhu, saying, "Give this robe to such and such a Bhikkhu;" and he, whilst on the way, hears that that Bhikkhu who sent it is dead; then if he keeps the robe himself1 as the robe of a deceased Bhikkhu, it is rightly kept; if he takes it himself in trust on the one to whom it was sent, it is wrongly taken.
'[In the same case], he, whilst on the way, hears that that Bhikkhu to whom it was sent is deadthen if he keeps the robe himself as the robe of a deceased Bhikkhu, it is wrongly kept; if he takes
1 On this meaning of adhiti/thati, see our note above, VIII, 20, 2; VIII, 24, 2.
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