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1, 54, 1. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 207
One has gone forth to Dakkhinâgiri with so few Bhikkhus ?'
Then the venerable Ânanda told the thing to the Blessed One.
In consequence of that and on this occasion the Blessed One, after having delivered a religious discourse, thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that a learned, competent Bhikkhu lives five years in dependence (on his âkariya and upagghầya), an unlearned one all his life.
5. 'In five cases, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu should not live without a nissaya (i.e. independent of âkariya and upagghầya): when he does not possess full perfection in what belongs to moral practices (&c., as in chap. 36. 2). In these five cases, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu should not live without a nissaya.
'In five cases, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu may live without a nissaya: when he possesses full perfection in what belongs to moral practices (&c., as in chap. 36. 3). In these five cases, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu may live without a nissaya.
6-13. 'And also in other five cases, &c. 1' End of the eighth Bhânavâra, which is called the
Abhayůvara Bhânavâra .
54. Į. Then the Blessed One, after having resided at Râgagaha as long as he thought fit, went forth to
Supply these pentads and hexads, respectively, from chaps. 36. 6, 7; 8, 9; 14, 15; 16, 17; 37. 1, 2; 5, 6; 7; 8; 13, 14.
? Abhayû vara means, 'secure from anything. This refers to the expression used in chap. 42, § 2.
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