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, 3.
tributor of lodging-places-no overseer of storesno receiver of robes-no distributor of robes, of congey, or of fruits-and no distributor of dry foods, and through not being distributed it went bad.
They told each of these matters to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as distributor of lodging-places, &c., a Bhikkhu who has (&c., as in I, down to the end of the Kammavâkâ, inserting throughout the appropriate variations in the fifth qualification).
3. Now at that time articles of trifling value had accumulated in the storehouse of the Samgha.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
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KULLAVAGGA.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as disposer of trifles a Bhikkhu who has (&c., as before, down to the end of the Kammavâkâ). Each separate needle, and pair of scissors, and pair of sandals, and girdle, and pair of braces, and filtering cloth, and regulation strainer, and plait 3, and half-plait 3, and gusset, and half-gusset3, and binding, and braiding*, is to be given away. If the Samgha has any ghee, or oil, or honey, or molasses, he is to give it away for personal consumption only, and if it be wanted, he is to give it a second and a third time'.'
There is another officer (âsana-paññâpaka) mentioned at Kullavagga XII, 2, 7, whose omission from the list here is worthy of notice.
Dhamma-karako. See V, 13, 1.
On these words, see Mahâvagga VIII, 12, 2. On these two words, see Mahâvagga VIII, 1, 5.
These things were to be used only as medicines, according to Mahâvagga VI, 1, 1-5, where butter is also added. That would be under the charge of the distributor of dry foods (§ 2), as if kept it would go bad. According to VI, 15, 10, none of these five
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