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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KULLAVAGGA.
IV, 14, 19.
'A Bhikkhu to be chosen on such a jury must be possessed of ten qualities—he must be virtuoushe must be living enclosed by the restraint of the rules of the Pâtimokkha-he must be upright in life, trained according to the precepts, taking them upon himself with a sense of the danger in the least offence he must be versed in the tradition, a custodian of the tradition, a storehouse of the tradition—whatsoever truths, lovely in their origin, lovely in their progress, lovely in their consummation, set forth the higher life, both in its spirit and in its letter, in all its purity and in all its perfectness, in such truths must he be well versed, of such must he be full, they must be laid up in his words 3, and dwelt on in his heart, being penetrated throughout through right insight both the Pâtimokkhas must have
from ud+vah; and means simply reference'-the turning over of a difficult or intricate case from the general Samgha to a special committee, as was done at Vesali (below, XII, 2, 7).
With this passage (so far) compare the Âkankheyya Sutta, $ 2 (translated in Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas,' p. 210), where the wording is somewhat different. See, however, the various readings here.
We prefer to translate, in accordance with IX, 5, i below, sättham savyañganam as given in the corrections to the text on p. 303 ; thus making the phrase 'in the spirit and in the letter' refer to the brahma-kariyam, and not to the dhamma. But it should be pointed out that the parallel passage in the stock description of a Buddha (for instance in Tevigga Sutta I, 46, translated in Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas,' p. 187) would support the reading given here in the text, referring the phrase in question to the dhamma, and not to the brahma-kariyam.
See the various readings, and compare Sigalovâda Sutta, p. 301; Gâtaka II, 247, 293; Mahâvagga VI, 25, 1.
4 Though ditthi is usually found in its bad sense of delusion' (it never means 'heresy,' as Childers renders it), it is also used, especially in older texts, in the good sense of insight.' Compare the Book of the Great Decease,' I, II.
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