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, 29, 4. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to fasten the phala ka cloth for the block on the edge of the robe, and to fasten the phalaka cloth for the chain seven or eight finger-breadths up the robe.'
4. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your under garments arranged as laymen do, nor arranged with appendages like elephant-trunks !, nor arranged like fishing-nets, nor arranged with four corners showing 3, nor arranged like flower-stands“, nor arranged like rows of jewelry. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.
(Similar paragraph, ending] "You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your upper
1 Hatthi-sondakam nama nâbhi-malato hatthi-sonda-santhanam olambakan katvå nivattham, kolika-itthinam nivasanam viya (B.).
Makkha-vâlakam nâma ekato dasantam ekato pâsantam olambitvå nivattham (B.).
k'atu-kannakam upari dve hettato dve evam kattaro kanne dassetva nivattham (B.).
• Tâla-vantakam nama tâlavant'-åkarena sådakam olambitvå nivâsanam (B.). See our note on tâlavanta above, V, 22, 2, and on amalaka-vantika-pitham below, VI, 2, 4.
o Sata-vallikam nama digha-sátakam aneka-kkhattum obhangitvå ovathikam karontena nivattham vâ. padakkhina-passesu vâ nirantaram valiyo dassetvå nivattham. Sake pana gânuto palthầya eko vâ dve vâ valiyo paññayanti, valtati (B.). Compare vallik å and ovaltikam at V, 2, 1. Buddhaghosa's second explanation would be possible if the reading were sata-valikam, and is probably only a pis aller, due to the difficulty of the first, which we have adopted doubtfully.
. Pårupati as opposed to nivå seti above. Compare Dhammapada, pp. 114, 376; Gâtaka, vol. I, p. 57, line 16.
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