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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KULLAVAGGA.
V, 29, 1.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a loom, and of shuttles, strings, tickets, and all the apparatus belonging to a loom.'
29. I. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu entered the village for alms without a girdle on, and in the highwayı his waist-cloth fell down? The people made an outcry, and that Bhikkhu was abashed.
On his return to the Årâma, that Bhikkhu told this matter to the Bhikkhus, and the Bhikkhus told it to the Blessed One.
"You are not, O Bhikkhus, to enter the village without a girdle on. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, a girdle 8.'
2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear special girdles —those made of many strings plaited to
· Rathiyâya. The Old Commentary on the Bhikkhunivibhanga, Pakittiya XIV, says, Rathiya ti rakkha. The word recurs, ibid., Påkittiya LXXXVI, XCVI (the last of which is nearly the same as our passage here). For the more usual form rathika, see Kullavagga X, 12.
*Pabhassittha. Compare Sutta-vibhanga, Pakittiya LXXXIII, 1, 2. It is from the root bhrams, not bhâs.
& The use of this has already been enjoined at Mahâvagga I, 25, 9, 10. It was to be tied on round the waist, over the waist-cloth, to keep it in its place.
• It is curious that kati-suttakam, a kind of girdle which would seem properly to belong here, has been included in a former list of forbidden articles at V, 2, 1.
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