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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MAHÂVAGGA.
II, 12, 1.
the senior Bhikkhu dwells and hold Uposatha there. But in no case is Uposatha to be held by an incomplete congregation. He who holds it (in that way), commits a dukkata offence.'
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1. At that time the reverend Maha Kassapa, when going to the Uposatha from Andhakavinda to Râgagaha, and crossing a river on his way, was nearly being carried away (by the river)2; and his robes got wet. The Bhikkhus said to the reverend Mahâ Kassapa : ‘How have your robes got wet, friend ?” (He replied): 'As I was going, friends, to the Uposatha from Andhakavinda to Râgagaha, and crossing a river on my way, I was nearly being carried away (by the river); thus my robes have become wet.'
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'Let the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, confer on the boundary which it has determined for common
1 Manam vulho ahosi.' Buddhaghosa : 'îsakam appattavulhabhâvo a hosi.' Manam is evidently the equivalent of Sanskrit manâk.
* Buddhaghosa's note on this passage contains some details regarding the way which Maha Kassapa went. Andhakavinda is three gâvuta distant from Râgagaha. There were eighteen (? the MS. reads: althâra mahâvihârâ) great Viharas around Râgagaha included by the same boundary which Buddha himself had consecrated. The Uposatha service for this whole district was performed in the Veluvana monastery. The river which Mahâ Kassapa crossed on his way to the Veluvana was the Sappini, which rises in the Gigghakata mountain.
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