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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KULLAVAGGA.
II, 1, 2.
according to their seniority; (that is to say), the Uposatha ceremony, the Pavâranâ ceremony, the share in robes for the rainy season, in things dedicated to the Samgha?, and in food.
2. “Therefore, O Bhikkhus, do I make known to you a rule of conduct for Bhikkhus who have been placed on probation, according to which they ought to conduct themselves aright. And herein this is the right conduct. He ought not to confer the Upasampadâ (&c., as above, in I, 1, 5, down to the end)
'A Bhikkhu who has been placed on probation ought not, O Bhikkhus, to walk in front of, or to sit down in front of, a regular Bhikkhu. Whichever belonging to that company of Bhikkhus shall be the worst seat?, or the worst sleeping-place, or the worst room“, that shall be given to that Bhikkhu, and there
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1 Onoganam, which the Samanta Pâsâdikâ explains by visagganam. Compare the use of onogesi at Dipavamsa XIII, 29. The etymology of the word is unknown to us.
2 The Samanta Pâsâdika has here the following note on savakaniyam, which should be compared with the shorter note on the same word given above, I, 1, 5: Na savakaniyam kâtabban ti palibodhatthâya pakkosanatthaya và savakaniyam na kâtabbam. Palibodhatthâya hi karonto, aham âyasmantam imasmim vatthusmim savakaniyam karomi, imamhâ âvâsâ ekapadam pi mâ pakkami yâva na tam adhikaranam vúpasantam hotîti; evam karoti. Pakkosanatthâya karonto, aham te savakaniyam karomi, ehi maya saddhim vinaya-dharanam sammukhibhavam gakkhâmà ti : evam karoti.
* Buddhaghosa says here, Asanapariyanto bhattaggâdîsu samgha-navak-âsanam vukkati, svassa dâtabbo. Pariyanta is used here in the same sense as in the 22nd Nissaggiya.
4 Vihara. In later times this word is no doubt always, or almost always, used to designate the whole of a building in which several or many Bhikkhus resided. In the older literature it always,
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