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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PÂTIMOKKHA.
32. There is Pâkittiya in going in a body to receive a meal', except on the right occasion.
Herein the right occasion is this : (to wit), when there is sickness, when robes are being given, when robes are being made, when on a journey (on foot), when on board a boat, when the influx of Bhikkhus) is great?, when a general invitation is given to Samanas 3. This is right occasion in this passage.
33. There is Pâkittiya in taking food in turno, except on the right occasion.
Herein the right occasion is this: (to wit), when there is sickness, when robes are being given, when
these a constant supply of rice was provided for travellers. See the Mahâ-parinibbâna Sutta I, 10; II, 5 (pp. 10, 16); Gâtaka, No. 31 Buddhist Birth Stories,' pp. 280-285); Mahâ-sudassana Sutta I, 63; Dhammapada Commentary apud Fausböll, 185. The Samanta-Pâsâdikâ on this rule (Minayeff, p. 88) says that âvasathapindo is a meal in such an âvasatha.
1 On this rule compare Kullavagga VII, 3, 13. 'In a body' means four or more Bhikkhus going together to the same house.
2 Mahâ-samayo. The Vibhanga relates how, when vassa was over, the Bhikkhus repaired in great numbers to visit the Buddha. On such occasions it was difficult or impossible for them all, if they adhered to the strict rule, to obtain their meals.
S Samana-bhatta-samayo. See the Vibhanga, and the Samanta-Pâsâdikâ, quoted by Minayeff, pp. 88, 89. 'Samanas,' of course, includes others besides Buddhists.
Parampara-bhogane; that is, in picking and choosing with regard to food, or in regard to different invitations. The Bhikkhus were to eat straight on whatever was given, and to accept invitations in the order in which they were received. But a sick Bhikkhu might choose one morsel rather than another; and Bhikkhus in health might accept an invitation to a house where robes are going to be given, or made, rather than to a house where only a meal was offered. The last exception was simply to guard against the stock of robes falling short (Bhikkhů ... nâdhivâsenti: kivaram parittam uppaggati, says the Vibhanga).
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