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V, 23, 1. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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Then the Blessed One instructed (&c., as usual, see 21. 2, down to) she departed thence. And the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, after having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, small jars and brooms. You are not, O Bhikkhus, to make use of earthenware foot-scrubbers. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, three kinds of things to rub the feet with—to wit, sandstone', gravel', and sea-foam ??
2. (A similar paragraph ending]
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of fans and flower-stands 3.'
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1. Now at that time a mosquito-fan had come into the possession of the Samgha.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of mosquitofans.' .
A châmara (a tail of the Bos Gruniens or Tibetan ox, mounted on a stick, to be used by
1 Sakkhara and kathala, the exact distinction between which two terms is not stated.
Samudda-phenaka. By this name are designated the bones of the cuttle-fish which, when cast up by the waves on the sea. shore, are not unlike petrified foam, and have actually been introduced from the East into use in Europe as a kind of rough natural soap; and are now sold for that purpose in most chemists' shops in England (compare Meerschaum). The same word is found in later Sanskrit works.
Talavantam. See Gâtaka I, 26, 5 (at the end); and compare tâlavantakam below, V, 29, 4.
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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 |