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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MAHẬVAGGA.
1, 14, 4.
4. Then the Blessed One preached to them, .... (&c., as in chap. 8. 2, or 9. 3).
5. And having seen the Truth, .... (&c., as in chap. 9.4 down to :). Thus these venerable persons received the upasampadâ ordination.
Here ends the story of the thirty rich young
companions.
End of the second Bhânavâra.
15. I. And the Blessed One, wandering from place to place, came to Uruvela. At that time there lived in Uruvelâ three Gatilas!, Uruvela Kassapa, Nadi Kassapa (Kassapa of the River, i.e. the Nerañgara), and Gayâ Kassapa (Kassapa of the village Gayà). Of these the Gatila Uruvelâ Kassapa was chief, leader, foremost, first, and highest over five hundred Gatilas; Nadi Kassapa was chief .... (&c., down to highest over) three hundred Gatilas, Gayâ Kassapa was chief .... (&c., down to highest over) two hundred Gatilas.
2. And the Blessed One went to the hermitage of
1 The Gatilas (i. e. ascetics wearing matted hair) are Brahmanical vânaprasthas. The description of their ascetic life given in many passages of the Gâtaka Atthavannanâ and of the Apadâna exactly agrees with the picture of the forest life of the jólot which so frequently occurs in the Mahâbhârata. In the Mahâvagga (VI, 35, 2) it is expressly stated that the Gallas recognised the authority of the Veda, and it is in keeping with this that the usual term for adopting the state of a Gatila is 'isipabbaggam pabbagati' (frequently in the Gât. Atth.), i. e. leaving the world and becoming a Rishi.
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