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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KULLAVAGGA.
VII, 4, 1.
4. 1. Now Devadatta on that day, which was Uposatha day, arose from his seat, and gave out votingtickets !, saying, "We went, Sirs, to the Samana Gotama and asked for the Five Points, saying(&c., as above in VII, 3, 14 and 15). These the Samana Gotama will not allow; but we live in accordance therewith. Whosoever of the venerable ones approves of the Five Things, let him take a ticket.'
Now at that time there were five hundred Bhikkhus, Vesaliyans, and belonging to the Vaggian clan?, who had but recently joined the Order, and were ignorant of what he had in hands. These took the voting-tickets, believing the Five Points to be according to] the Dhamma, and the Vinaya, and the teaching of the Master. And Devadatta, having thus created a division in the Samgha, went out to the hill Gaya-sisa, taking those five hundred Bhikkhus with him.
Then Sariputta and Moggallâna went to the Blessed One, and bowed down before him, and took their seats on one side. And when they were so seated, Sariputta said to the Blessed One: 'Deva
i It may be noticed that Devadatta here takes upon himself the office of a salâka-gâhâ pako without having been appointed to it in the manner required by the rule laid down in Kullavagga IV, 9 and 10. On the process to be followed when voting with tickets, see IV, 4, 26.
. So it is the Vaggians from Vesali who are represented, below XII, 1, 1, to have put forward those Ten Points which gave rise to the Council and the schism at Vesålt a hundred years after the Buddha's death.
• Apakatanñuno.
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