Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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VIII, 1, 34. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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Blessed One purged ?' (Buddha replied), 'I have purged, Glvaka.' (Givaka said), 'When I was out of doors, Lord, I thought: “I have given indeed, &c." Lord, may the Blessed One take a bath, may the Happy One take a bath.' Then the Blessed One bathed in that warm water; the bath purged the Blessed One once; thus the Blessed One was purged full thirty times.
And Givaka Komârabhakka said to the Blessed One: ‘Lord, until the Blessed One's body is completely restored, you had better abstain from liquid food.' And ere long the Blessed One's body was completely restored.
34. Then Givaka Komârabhakka took that suit of Siveyyaka cloth and went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him, and having respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he sat down near him. Sitting near him, Glvaka Komârabhakka said to the Blessed One: 'Lord, I ask one boon of the Blessed One.' (Buddha replied), “The Tathagatas, Givaka, are above granting boons (before they know what they are).' (Givaka said), Lord, it is a proper and unobjectionable demand.'-- Speak, Gtvaka.'
'Lord, the Blessed One wears only pamsukula robes (robes made of rags taken from a dust heap or a cemetery'), and so does the fraternity of Bhikkhus. Now, Lord, this suit of Siveyyaka cloth has been sent to me by king Paggota, which is the best, and the most excellent, and the first, and the most precious, and the noblest of many cloths and of
Buddhaghosa: "To the Blessed One during the twenty years from his Sambodhi till this story happened no one had presented a lay robe.
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