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, 11, 4. RESIDENCE DURING THE RAINY SEASON.
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ciently as required, but they cannot get sustaining food. This is to be considered .... (&c., as in § 1) .... Vassa.
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhus who have entered upon Vassa, get food coarse or fine sufficiently as required, they get sustaining food, but they cannot get proper medicine. This is to be considered .... (&c., as in § 1).... Vassa.
In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhus .... (&c., as § 1, down to).... sustaining food, and they can get profitable medicine, but they cannot find suitable laymen to do service to them. This is to be considered .... (&c., as in § 1).... Vassa.
3. In case, O Bhikkhus, to a Bhikkhu who has entered upon Vassa, a woman makes an offer (in these words): “Come, venerable Sir, I give you gold, or I give you bullion?, or I give you a field, or I give you a site (for a house or a garden), or I give you an ox, or I give you a cow, or I give you a slave, or I give you a female slave, or I give you my daughter as your wife, or I will be your wife, or I get another wife for you.” In that case, if the Bhikkhu thinks: “The Blessed One has said that the mind of men is easily changeable; danger might arise to the purity of my life," he ought to go away from that place. He is not guilty of interruption of Vassa.
4. •In case, O Bhikkhus, to a Bhikkhu who has entered upon Vassa, a harlot makes an offer, &c., an adult girl makes an offer, &c., a eunuch makes an offer, &c., relations make an offer, &c., kings make
See Rh. D.’s ‘Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon,' p. 5 ("Numismata Orientalia,' vol. i).
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