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'A Bhikkhunt is not, O Bhikkhus, to carry away a foetus in her bowl. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow a Bhikkhuni, O Bhikkhus, on seeing a Bhikkhu, to pull out her bowl, and show it to him.'
KULLAVAGGA.
X, 15, I.
The following short section will scarcely bear translating into modern English.
15.
1. Now at that time the people gave food to the Bhikkhus, and the Bhikkhus gave to the Bhikkhunts. The people murmured, were indignant, and complained, saying: 'How can their reverences give away to others what was given for them to have-as if we did not know how to give gifts?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is not to give away to others what was given for them themselves to have. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkała.'
Now at that time the Bhikkhus had come into the possession of some (meat for) food. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give it to the Samgha.'
Too much came into their possession.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give away that which was given to special individuals (and to keep that which had come into the possession of the Samgha as a whole 1).'
1 Puggalikam dâtum. On this phrase compare the similar one below at X, 24. Buddhaghosa has no note either here or there.
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