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addressed those Bhikkhus: 'Enough, O Bhikkhus, no altercations, no contentions, no disunion, no quarrels !'
And for the third time that Bhikkhu who adhered to the party who were wrong, said to the Blessed One: 'Lord, may the Blessed One, the king of Truth, be patient! Lord, may the Blessed One quietly enjoy the bliss he has obtained already in this life! The responsibility for these altercations and contentions, for this disunion and quarrel will rest with us alone.' And the Blessed One thought: 'Truly these fools are infatuate; it is no easy task to administer instruction to them,'-and he rose from his seat and went away.
MAHAVAGGA.
End of the first Bhânavâra, which contains the story of Dighâvu.
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And in the forenoon the Blessed One, having put on his under-robes, took up his alms-bowl and his kîvara, and entered the town of Kosambi for alms. Having collected alms in Kosambi, after his meal, when he had returned from his alms-pilgrimage, he put his resting-place in order, took up his alms-bowl and his kivara, and standing in the midst of the assembly he pronounced the following stanzas:
'Loud is the noise that ordinary men make. Nobody thinks himself a fool, when divisions arise in the Samgha, nor do they ever value another person higher (than themselves).
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