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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MAHẬVAGGA.
III, 13, 1.
13. 1. At that time the Samgha at Sâvatthi had made an agreement that nobody should receive the pabbaggâ ordination during the rainy season. A grandson of Visakhâ Migâramâtâ? went to the Bhikkhus and asked them for the pabbaggå ordination. The Bhikkhus said to him: 'The Samgha, friend, has made an agreement that nobody shall receive the pabbaggâ ordination during the rainy season. Wait, friend, as long as the Bhikkhus keep Vassa; when they have concluded the Vassa residence, they will confer on you the pabbaggâ ordination.'
When those Bhikkhus had concluded the Vassa residence, they said to the grandson of Visâkhả Migâramâtâ : 'Come now, friend, you may receive the pabbaggå ordination. He replied: 'If I had received the pabbaggâ ordination before, reverend Sirs, I should remain in the religious life), but now, reverend Sirs, I will not receive the pabbagga ordination.'
2. Visâkhâ Migâramâtâ was annoyed, murmured, and became angry (saying), “How can the noble ones make such an agreement that nobody shall receive the pabbaggâ ordination during the rainy season? At what time ought the duties of the Dhamma not to be performed ?'
Some Bhikkhus heard Visakhâ Migâramâtâ, who was annoyed, murmured, and had become angry.
1 Visakhâ was the most distinguished among the upâsikâs, and occupied a place among them similar to that which Anâthapindika, with whom she is frequently mentioned together, did among the upâsakas. See Dhammapada Althak. p. 78, &c.
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