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KULLAVAGGA.
X, 27, 4.
[Similar paragraph, ending]
'A Bhikkhunt is not, O Bhikkhus, to use scented clay at her bath1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of common clay.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunts bathing together in the steam-bath room made a tumult.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'Bhikkhunts are not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe in a steam-bath. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunts bathing against the stream allowed the rush of water against them. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhunt is not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe against the stream. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunis bathed in a place not a common bathing-place, and men of abandoned life violated them.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhunt is not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe at a place not a common bathing-place. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunis bathed at a bathingplace used also by men. People murmured, were indignant, and complained, saying, 'As those women do who are still living in the pleasures of the world '.'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
ti kundakan k' eva mattikan ka. The use of these last two was allowed to Bhikkhus by Kullavagga VI, 3, 1, for building purposes.
1 This is apparently covered by the 88th and 89th Bhikkhunî Pâkittiya.
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