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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I, 24, 1. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS.
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through many myriads of Kappas (world-ages) of the past.'
6. Then the paribbâgaka Sâriputta went to the place where the paribbâgaka Moggallâna was. And the paribbâgaka Moggallâna saw the paribbâgaka Sâriputta coming from afar; seeing him he said to the paribbâgaka Sariputta : Your countenance, friend, is serene; your complexion is pure and bright. Have you then really reached the immortal, friend ?' “Yes, friend, I have attained to the immortal.' And how, friend, have you done so ?'
7-9. 'I saw, friend, the Bhikkhu Assagi who went through Râgagaha for alms (&c.', down to :); "But I will tell you in short what it means."
""Tell me much or little as you like, but be sure to tell me the spirit (of the doctrine); I want but the spirit; why do you make so much of the letter?”
10. “Then, friend, the Bhikkhu Assagi pronounced the following Dhamma sentence: "Of all objects which proceed from a cause, the Tathậgata has explained the cause, and He has explained their cessation also; this is the doctrine of the great Samana.”
And the paribbâgaka Moggallâna, after having heard (&c., as in § 5, down to the end).
24. 1. Then the paribbâgaka Moggallâna said to the paribbâgaka Sariputta : 'Let us go, friend, and join
See &$ 2-4. Instead of. The paribbâgaka Sariputta,' of course, the pronoun of the first person is to be read; instead of The venerable Assagi' read, 'The Bhikkhu Assagi;' and further, the vocative 'Friend' (âvuso), addressed to Moggallâna, is inserted three or four times in the course of this narration.
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