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. VI, 19, 1.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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Uposatha Hall, or the meeting-place, sat on the ground; and their legs and robes got soiled.
They told the matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to take things away for a certain time only?'
Now at that time a large Vihâra belonging to the Samgha went to ruin? The Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, did not take the bedding in it away.
They told this matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to take away things in order to save them from destruction.'
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1. Now at that time there was a very valuable rug, and a very valuable piece of cloth, among the bedding furniture belonging to the Samgha.
They told this matter to the Blessed One S.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to barter either of these things in order to increase the stock of legally permissible furniture !
Now at that time the Samgha had received a
1 Tävakâlikam. The word occurs in Gataka I, 121, 393 (on which see Rh. D. in Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. 170, and * Buddhist Suttas,' p. 241), in Buddhaghosa's notes on Mahâvagga VII, 5, I (above, II, 154, note 7), in the Bhikkhuni-vibhanga, Pakittiya XXV, 2, and in Kullavagga X, 16, 1.
• Samghassa viharo udriyati. The whole phrase has already occurred at Mahåvagga III, 8.
• Because such things were forbidden by Mahâvagga V, 10, 4, though kambala is not there specially mentioned.
• Phâtikammatthâyâ ti vaddhikammatthåyå ti. Vaddhikammatthåya phåtikammam k' ettha samakam va atirekam và agghanakam mañka-pithâdi-senâsanam eva valtati (B.).
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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 |