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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1, 15, 3. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 119
the Gatila Uruvela Kassapa ; having gone there, he said to the Gatila Uruvelâ Kassapa : 'If it is not disagreeable to you, Kassapa, let me spend one night in the room where your (sacred) fire is kept.'
"It is not disagreeable to me, great Samana, but there is a savage Nâga (or Serpent) king of great magical power", a dreadfully venomous serpent; let him do no harm to you.'
And a second time the Blessed One said to the Gatila Uruvela Kassapa : 'If it is not disagreeable,' &c. .... 'It is not disagreeable,' &c.
RIESE LIBRA And a third time the Blessed One said: If it is
salu : : SIT not disagreeable,' &c. ....
It is not disagreeable,' &c. ....
He is not likely to do any harm to me. Pray, * Kassapa, allow me a place in the room where your fire is kept.'
'Stay there, great Samana, as you wish it.'
3. Then the Blessed One entered the room where the fire was kept, made himself a couch of grass, and sat down cross-legged, keeping the body erect and surrounding himself with watchfulness of mind. And the Nâga saw that the Blessed One had entered; when he saw that, he became annoyed, and irritated, and sent forth a cloud of smoke. Then the Blessed One thought: 'What if I were to leave intact the skin, and hide, and flesh, and ligaments, and bones,
i Iddhi. Compare the passages referred to by Rh. D. in Buddhist Suttas from the Påli,' pp. 2, 40, 259; and further Mahâvagga VI, 15, 8, and Kullavagga VII, 1, 4, and VII, 2, 1.
? Satim upatthâpetvâ. Sati is here a more precise idea than memory.
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