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KULLAVAGGA,
V, 27, 6.
They told this matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of pincers ?.'
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus (&c., as before, ending with)
You are not, O. Bhikkhus, to have the white hairs pulled out (off your heads). Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
6. Now, at that time a certain Bhikkhu's ears were stopped with the wax.
They told this matter to the Blessed. One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of an instrument to remove the wax from the ear?'
[Then a paragraph as to the substances of which it may be made, word for word, as in Mahavagga VI, 6, 21; 12, 3; Kullavagga V, 5, 2; 29, 2, &c.]
28. 1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus laid up much store of brass ware and copper ware.
People who came on a visit to the Vihâras, seeing it, murmured, &c., saying, 'Like those who spread out copper (for sale) 3.'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to lay up much store of brass ware and copper ware. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata .'
i Sandâ sa. So at Gâtaka I, 138, 4, a barber pulls out a white hair from the king's head, suvanna-sandåsena. * This license is repeated in the next chapter.
Kamsa-pattharika tî kamsa-bhanda-vâniga (B.). • They might have all kinds of brass ware, except certain articles, according to chapter 37 below.
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