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, 15, 3.
i THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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2. Now at that time, when the night was far spent, there was a great storm of rain over the whole world?. And the Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus:
Just as it is raining in the Getavana, O Bhikkhus, so is it raining over the whole world. Let yourselves, O Bhikkhus, be rained down upon, for this is the last time there will be a mighty storm of rain over the whole world.'
Even so, Lord,' said those Bhikkhus in assent to the Blessed One; and throwing off their robes they let themselves be rained down upon.
3. And Visakhả the mother of Migåra having provided sweet food, both hard and soft, gave command to a slave girl, saying,
'Go thou' to the Årâma; and when you are there, announce the time, saying, “The time, Sirs, has arrived, and the meal is ready."
Even so, my Lady,' said the slave girl in assent to Visåkhâ, the mother of Migara; and going to the Arâma she beheld there the Bhikkhus, with their robes thrown off, letting themselves be rained down upon. Then thinking, 'These are not Bhikkhus in the Arama, they are naked ascetics letting the rain fall on them,' she returned to the place where Visakha the mother of Migâra was, and said to her:
There are no Bhikkhus in the Arâma; there are
Katuddipiko, literally, over the four continents,' into which the world was supposed to be divided. Compare Genesis vii. 44.
Gakkha ge; where ge is the appropriate form of address invariably used to a female slave or maid-servant. Compare Childers, in the 'Dictionary,' p. 617.
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