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KULLAVAGGA.
VIII, 1, 1.
THE EIGHTH KHANDHAKA.
REGULATIONS AS TO THE DUTIES OF THE
BHIKKHUS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER.
1. Now at that time the Blessed One was staying at Såvatthi, in Anatha Pindika's Ârâma.
Now at that time incoming Bhikkhus entered the Årâma with their sandals on?, or with sunshades held up over them?, or with their heads muffled ups, or with their upper robe carried in a bundle on their heads*; and they washed their feet in the drinking - water; and they did not salute resident Bhikkhus senior to them, nor ask them where they (the incomers) should sleep.
And a certain incoming Bhikkhu undid the bolt5 of an unoccupied room (Vihara), and opened the doors, and so entered by force; and a snake fell
1 That this was a sign of disrespect is clear from Mahâvagga V, 12, and the 61st and 62nd Sekhiyas.
? See our discussion of the sunshade question in the note on
Kullavagga V;
• Ogunthita. See the 23rd and the 67th Sekhiyas. + Sise katva. Compare VIII, 6, 3. o Ghalika. This word is discussed at Kullavagga V, 14, 3.
• Such an act has been already guarded against by the rule laid down at the end of Kullavagga V, 9, 5, where the same expression is made use of.
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