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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V, II, 5.
their robes, held the stuff with their fingers, and their fingers were hurt.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a thimble '.' Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used various kinds of thimbles,-gold ones, and silver ones.
ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS. 95
People murmured, &c. The Bhikkhus heard, &c. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to use various kinds of thimbles. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, thimbles made of bone, or ivory, or horn, or of the nala reed, or of bamboo, or of hard wood, or of lac, or of the shells of fruit, or of bronze, or of the centre of the chank-shell ".'
Now at that time the needles, and scissors, and thimbles got lost.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a box or drawer in the workshop.'
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They got crowded together in the workshop box. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a thimble bag (to carry the thimbles about in).'
They had no shoulder-strap.
1 Patiggaho, 'receptacle' for the finger. See our note above on V, 10, 3, where the same word means a waste-tub. For other secondary uses of the word, see Gâtaka I, 146, II, 9, 26. Buddhaghosa says here, patiggahan ti anguli-kosakam.
* So of ointment-boxes, Mahâvagga VII, 12, 1; and of scissors, above, V, 11, 1.
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Âsevana-(sic)vitthakam nâma yam kiñki pâtî-kańgotakâdi
(B.).
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