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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ON EXCLUSION FROM THE PÂTIMOKKHA. 301
and went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and said to him, 'Lord, I have made that man go out. The assembly is now undefiled. May my lord the Blessed One recite the Pâtimokkha to the Bhikkhus.'
IX, 1, 3.
How astonishing and curious a thing it is, Moggallâna, that that foolish fellow should have waited up to the very point when he had to be taken by the arm.'
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3. And the Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus: 'There are, O Bhikkhus, in the great ocean, then, eight astonishing and curious qualities, by the constant perception of which the mighty creatures take delight in the great ocean. And what are the eight?
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The great ocean, O Bhikkhus, gets gradually deeper, slope following on slope, hollow succeeding hollow, and the fall is not precipitously abrupt1. This is the first [of such qualities] 2.
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'Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean remains of the same nature 3, and passes not beyond the shore. This is the second [of such qualities].
'Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean will not brook association with a dead corpse. Whatsoever dead corpse there be in the sea, that will it-and quickly-draw to the shore, and cast it out on the dry ground. This is the third [of such qualities].
'Again, O Bhikkhus, all the great rivers-that is to say, the Gangâ, the Yamunâ, the Akiravati, the
1 Na âyataken' eva. See Kullavagga V, 3, 1, and V, 17, 2. Paragraph is here, and in the succeeding paragraphs, repeated in full.
'Thita-dhammo, 'has characteristics which are stable.' For ussâreti read ussâdeti. See our note on VI, 11, 3. .
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