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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III, 7, 8. RESIDENCE DURING THE RAINY SEASON.
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They told this thing to the Blessed One.
2. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to go (even during the rainy season), if the thing you go for can be accomplished within seven days, even if you are not sent for, and much more if you are sent for, by a person of any one of the following seven classes : Bhikkhus, Bhikkhunis, sikkhamânâs, sâmaneras, sâ maneris, the mother, and the father. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to go, if the thing you go for can be accomplished within seven days, even if you are not sent for, and much more if you are sent for, by a person of any one of these seven classes. Within seven days you ought to return.
3. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu's mother is sick. If she sends a messenger to her son (saying), “I am sick ; might my son come to me; I long for my son's coming (&c., see chap. 6. 2)."
4. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu's father is sick .... (&c., as in § 3).
5. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu's brother is sick. If he sends a messenger to his brother (saying), “I am sick; might my brother come to me; I long for my brother's coming,” he ought to go, O Bhikkhus, if the affair can be accomplished within seven days, and if he sends for him, but not if he does not send for him. Within seven days he ought to return.
6. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu's sister is sick .... (&c., see $ 5).
7. In case, O Bhikkhus, a relation of a Bhikkhu is sick. If he sends a messenger to that Bhikkhu (saying), “I am sick; might his reverence come to me”.... (&c., as in § 5).
8. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a person that used to
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