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, 21, 2.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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days (that is, on the last days of each fortnight) or on the first days of each fortnight.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, each of three ways of obtaining food:
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus having received good food for themselves, gave over the worse food (which they had also received) to the other Bhikkhus.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as apportioner of rations' a Bhikkhu who is possessed of the following five qualifications—(&c., as in IV, 9, down to the end of the Kammavâkâ).'
Now the Bhikkhus who were apportioners of rations, thought: 'How then are the rations to be apportioned ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One. "I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apportion them by arranging the food in small heaps, and fastening tickets or marks upon them?
2. Now at that time the Samgha had no dis
("Pali Handbook,' p. 165), in interpreting the passage at Mahâvagga 1, 30, 4, take this to mean a feast given on the eighth day of the month. But paksha is the half-month. The expression much more probably means, therefore, to provide food either during the whole of a half-month for one or more specially invited Bhikkhus, or for a larger number on any one day of the half-month to be chosen by the Samgha.
Compare above, Kullavagga IV, 4, 1.
Buddhaghosa says, Salâkâya vå patikâya vâ upanibandhitvå opunkhitvå uddisitun ti vakanato rukkhasaramayâya salakaya vâ veluvilivatalapannâdinayâya parikâya vå asukassa nâma salâkabhattan ti evam akkharâni upanibandhitva pakkhiyam và kîvarabhoge vâ katvå sabbâ salâkâyo omuñkhitva [sic] punappunam hetthâ-vasena aloletva ... databba.
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