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MAHAVAGGA.
VIII, 28, 2.
nakedness, Lord, is in many ways effectual to moderation and content, to the eradication of evil, to the suppressions of the passions, to graciousness, reverence, and zeal. It were well, Lord, if the Blessed One would enjoin nakedness upon the Bhikkhus.'
The Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, ' This would be improper, O foolish one, crooked, unsuitable, unworthy of a Samana, unbecoming, and it ought not to be done. How can you, O foolish one, adopt nakedness as the Titthiyas do? This will not conduce, O foolish one, to the conversion of the unconverted.'
And when he had rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to adopt nakedness, as the Titthiyas do1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a grave offence (Thullakkaya).'
2. [The whole section repeated respectively in the case of a Bhikkhu clad in a garment of grass, clad in a garment of bark, clad in a garment of phalaka cloth, clad in a garment of hair, clad in the skin of a wild animal, clad in the feathers of
1 Compare above, VIII, 15, 7 and II.
This is several times referred to in the Gâtakas; for instance, pp. 6, 9, 12.
"Perhaps made of leaves. Compare Böhtlingk-Roth's, No. 5, sub voce; and Gâtaka I, 304 (phalakattharasayana). Perhaps also Gâtaka I, 356, 'making a man his phalaka,' may be a figure of speech founded on this use of the word, and mean 'making him his covering.'
Like the well-known Titthiya Agita, one of the six great heretics (Sâmañña-phala Sutta, ed. Grimblot, p. 114,= Book of the Great Decease, V, 60).
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |