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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X, 18.
ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNIS.
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[The rest of the proceedings are the same as in the last sections 6 and 7, putting Bhikkhu' for • Bhikkhunt,' and 'reverend Sirs' for 'reverend Ladies.']
Then, further, let them (the Bhikkhus) measure the shadow, tell the newly-received Bhikkhuni) what season and what date it is, tell her what part of the day it is, tell her the whole formula', and tell the Bhikkhunis: “You are to teach her what are the three things allowed?, and what are the eight things interdicted :")
18. Now at that time Bhikkhunts wasted their time in the dining-hall, doubting as to which should take which seat.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that the senior eight Bhikkhunts shall take their seats according to seniority, and the rest as they happen to come in.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunts, on the ground that the Blessed One had so prescribed, let the eight senior Bhikkhunts in every other place take
* Samgîti. On the meaning of this curious use of the word, see our note on the corresponding section for the Bhikkhus (Mahavagga I, 77).
The three Nissayas, which are doubtless the same as the ist, 2nd, and 4th of the four Resources mentioned in the corresponding paragraph for Bhikkhus (Mahavagga I, 77). The third is forbidden to Bhikkhunîs, below, X, 23.
Altha akaranîyâni. These must bear the same relation to the eight Bhikkhuni Pårågikas as the four Interdicts in the corresponding paragraph for the Bhikkhus (Mahavagga 1, 78) do to the four Bhikkhu Parágikas.
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