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V, 33, 3. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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muring, &c. And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One. "Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say?'
It is true, Lord.'
The Blessed Buddha rebuked them, saying (&c., as usual, see I, 1, 2, 3). And when he had rebuked them, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to have sun-shades held over you. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
3. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu was sick, and without a sun-shade (being held over him) he was ill at ease.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow, O Bhikkhus, a sun-shade for the sick.' Now at that time the Bhikkhus, thinking, 'It is for the sick only that sun-shades have been allowed by the Blessed One, and not for those who are not sick,' were afraid to use sun-shades in the Arâma, or in the precincts of the Arâma.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow, O Bhikkhus, either a sick man, or one who is not sick, to have a sun-shade held over him either in the Arâma, or in the precincts of the Ârâma?!
1 There is an ambiguity, either in the use of the word khatta, or in the use of the verb dhâreti, or both, running through this chapter. As a matter of fact, the Bhikkhus now use sun-shades (usually those made of paper in China) of the same shape as the umbrellas now used in England; and they make no distinction as to the place in which they use them. But there is another shape for shades, to be carried by a dependant walking behind the person to be shaded, in which the handle is fastened to the rim at the side of, and not in the middle underneath that part of it which
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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 |