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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VI, 17, 3.
building belonging to the Samgha kept exclusive possession of it-or the Bhikkhus gave work in charge to one not at that time within the boundary1 -or Bhikkhus who had once taken charge kept exclusive possession for all time.
They told [each of] these matters to the Blessed One.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do [any one of these things] Whosoever does, he guilty of a dukkata. And the Bhikkhu in charge may take one good sleeping-place into his exclusive possession for the three months of the rainy, but not during the dry season.'
3. Now at that time Bhikkhus who had taken charge of building operations left the place [or otherwise became incompetent in one or other of the twenty and three ways set out in the next paragraph 2].
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'In case that occurs, O Bhikkhus, as soon as he has taken charge, or before the building has been completed, let the office be given to another lest there should be loss to the Samgha. In case the building has been completed, O Bhikkhus, if he then leaves the place, it (the office and its privileges) is still his-if he then returns to the world, or dies, or admits that he is a sâmanera, or that he has abandoned the precepts, or that he has become guilty of an extreme offence, the Samgha
1 See above, VI, 11, 3.
⚫ See Mahâvagga II, 22, 3, and II, 36, 1-3. In the latter of these two passages the three cases are omitted. In Mahâvagga IX, 4, 2, and 8, the whole 23 are given,
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