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V, 9, 1. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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wooden pot displayed before the laity the superhuman quality of your miraculous power of Iddhi. This will not conduce, Bhâradvậga, either to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted; but rather to those who have not been converted remaining unconverted, and to the turning back of those who have been converted.'
And when he had rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said : You are not, O Bhikkhus, to display before the laity the superhuman power of Iddhi. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata? Break to pieces, O Bhikkhus, that wooden bowl ; and when you have ground it to powder, give it to the Bhikkhus as perfume for their eye ointments 3. And you are not, O Bhikkhus, to use wooden bowls. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkatat'
1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to use bowls of various kinds, made of gold and silver.
The people murmured (&c., as usual, down to) They told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to use bowls made
vagga was composed. The word occurs also below at Kullavagga XII, 1, I.
1 See Kullavagga I, 1, 2. • Compare the 4th Pârâgika.
• The use of sandal-wood for this purpose is allowed by the closing words of Mahâvagga VI, 11. • This injunction is repeated below in the summary at V, 37.
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