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IV, 4, 5.
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
venerable Dabba the Mallian had thus appointed unto them their lodging-place, he would return back again to the Bamboo Grove.
5. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were followers of Mettiya and Bhummagaka' had been but recently received into the Samgha, and were wanting in merit, and such among the lodgingplaces appertaining to the Samgha as were inferior fell to their lot, and the inferior rations ?
Now at that time the people of Râgagaha were desirous of presenting to the Thera Bhikkhus a wishing-gifts, to wit, ghee and oil and dainty bits*; while to the Bhikkhus who were followers of Mettiya and Bhummagaka they used to give an ordinary gift according to their ability, to wit, scraps of food and sour gruel with it .
passage is clear from the closing words of VIII, 1, 2, where most of these phrases recur. In the text, for the last word nikkhipitabbam read nikk hamitabbam, as pointed out in the note at p. 363 of the edition of the text.
1 These were two of the six leaders of the notorious Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus.
• Compare the 22nd Nissaggiya.
' Abhisamk hârikam; that is, a gift by the giving of which the donor expressly wished that a particular result (as, for instance, that the donor should be re-born as a king or queen, or should enter the paths, or have opportunity to hear a Buddha preach) should be brought about by the normal effect of that good act in a future birth. There are not a few instances of such wishes, and of their fulfilment, recorded in various parts of the sacred literature.
• Uttaribhangam. See the passages quoted in the note on Mahavagga VI, 14, 3. These three things are also mentioned together at VIII, 4, 4.
* These expressions recur at Gataka I, 228. The Samanta Pâsâ. dikå says merely ka någakan ti sakuntaka-bhattam. Bilangadutiyan ti kangika-dutiyam.
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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 |