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PÂTIMOKKHA.
Should he keep it beyond that—that is a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture.
29. When vassa is completed up to the full moon in Kattikal in case a Bhikkhu, who is dwelling in a place belonging to the class of those forest dwellings which are held to be insecure and dangerous, should desire to do so, he may leave one or other of his three robes in a hut inside a village, and if there is any ground for that Bhikkhu being separated from that robe, he may be separated from it up to the sixth night. Should he separate himself from it more than that, except by permission from the Bhikkhus—that is a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture.
30. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall cause to be diverted to himself any benefit already dedicated to the Samgha—that is a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture.
Here ends the third section,
the 'Bowl-section.'
Venerable Sirs, the thirty Pâkittiya Rules involving forfeiture have been recited.
In respect of them I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'
1 This is a different date from that mentioned in the last rule, and one month later. The Vibhanga explains the date here as Kattika-kâtumâsinî, whereas the date in Rule 28 is temâsinî, and is called by the Samanta-Pâsâdikâ (Minayeff, p. 82) pathamakattika-punnamâ.
The same distinction is evident, from Mahâvagga IV, 14, 7-11, between Pavâranâ and the Kâtumâsinî. But how both these full moons came to be called Kattika is not clear.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |