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MAHÂVAGGA.
II, 21, 1.
'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you provide drink and food.
Now the Bhikkhus thought, &c. (see § 2).
'He who does not provide for it, commits a dukkata offence.
1. At that time many ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus who travelled to the (four) quarters (of the world) did not ask leave of their âkariyas and upaggha yas (when going away).
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'In case, O Bhikkhus, there are many ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus who travel to the (four) quarters without asking leave of their âkariyas and upagghayas; such Bhikkhus ought to be asked by their âkariyas and upagghayas: “Where will you go ? with whom will you go?” If those ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus name other ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus, their âkariyas and upagg hầyas ought not to allow them (to go); if they allow them, they commit a dukkata offence. If those ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus go without the permission of their akariyas and upagghầyas, they commit a dukkata offence.
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, there dwell in a certain residence many ignorant, unlearned Bhikkhus who neither know Uposatha, nor the Uposatha service, nor the Pâtimokkha, nor the recital of the Pâtimokkha : now there arrives (at that place) another Bhikkhu who is erudite, who has studied the âgamas (i. e. the collections of Suttas), who knows
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