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, 32, 1.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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it himself in trust on the one who sent it, it is rightly taken.
'[In the same case, if he hears, whilst on the way, that both are dead—then if he keeps it himself as the robe of a deceased Bhikkhu, to wit, the one who sent it, it is rightly kept; if he keeps it himself as the property of a deceased Bhikkhu, to wit, the one to whom it was sent, it is wrongly kept.]
3. Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu send a robe in charge of a Bhikkbu, saying, "I give the robe to such and such a Bhikkhu "—then (in all the cases given in § 2 the decision is reversed] ”'
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1. There are, O Bhikkhus, these eight grounds ? for the getting of a gift of robes—when he gives it to the boundary, when he gives it to (a Samgha which is) under agreement (with other Samghas), when he gives it on a declaration of alms, when he gives it to the Samgha, when he gives it to both the Samghas, when he gives it to the Samgha which has spent the rainy season (at the place), when he gives it to a specified number 3, when he gives it to a single Bhikkhu.
1 The reason of all this is, that if the sender (A) says to the messenger (B), Give this robe to the sendee (C),' the property in the robe does not pass; if A says to B,ʻI give this robe to C,' it does pass.
* Matika; used in the same sense here as at VII, 1, 7.
* That is, of monks and nuns—the Bhikkhu-samgha and the Bhikkhuni-samgha.
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