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I, 11, 2. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 113
which is glorious in the beginning, glorious in the middle, glorious at the end, in the spirit and in the letter; proclaim a consummate, perfect, and pure life of holiness. There are beings whose mental eyes are covered by scarcely any dust, but if the doctrine is not preached to them, they cannot attain salvation. They will understand the doctrine. And I will go also, O Bhikkhus, to Uruvela, to Senâninigama", in order to preach the doctrine.'
2. And Mâra the wicked One went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him, he addressed the Blessed One in the following stanza : "Thou art bound by all fetters, human and divine. Thou art bound by strong fetters. Thou wilt not be delivered from me, O Samana.'
Buddha replied: 'I am delivered from all fetters, human and divine. I am delivered from the strong fetters. Thou art struck down, O Death.
(Mâra said): 'The fetter which pervades the sky, with which mind is bound, with that fetter I will bind thee. Thou wilt not be delivered from me, O Samana.'
(Buddha replied): 'Whatever forms, sounds, odours, flavours, or contacts there are which please the
in which two or more Bhikkhus are mentioned as wandering together, without any expression of disapproval being added. The precept given here evidently is intended to refer only to the earliest period in the spread of the new doctrine ; just as in chap. 12 a form of upasampada is introduced by Buddha which was regarded as inadmissible in later times.
1 The correct spelling of this name appears to be Senaninigama ("the General's Town'), and not Senânigama (the Army's Town'); the Gâtaka Atthavannanâ (vol. i. p. 68) and the Paris MS. of the Mahâvagga (manu secunda) read Senaninigama. The Lalita Vistara has Senapatigrama.
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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 |