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MAHÂVAGGA.
V, 3, 4.
tails 1; sewn round with peacocks' feathers; or shoes of all kinds of colours 3.
People were annoyed (&c., as in § 2, down to :) told this thing to the Blessed One.
Do not wear, O Bhikkhus, shoes with heelcoverings (&c., as in g 3, down to :) shoes of all kinds of colours. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
4. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes adorned with lion-skins , tiger-skins, panther-skins, antelope-skins, otter-skins", cat-skins, squirrel-skins, and owl-skins .
People were annoyed (&c., as in § 3, down to the end, substituting 'shoes adorned with lion-skins, &c.,' for shoes with heel-coverings, &c.')
1. Now the Blessed One, having dressed early in the morning, went into Râgagaha, duly bowled and robed, for alms, with a certain Bhikkhu as his companion. And that Bhikkhu followed limping step by step behind the Blessed One.
1 Vikkhikâlika 'ti tatth' eva vikkhika-nanguttha-santhâne vaddhe yogetvâ kata.
· Morapiñikhaparisibbitâ (sic) 'ti talesu vå baddhesu vâ moravinkhehi (sic) suttakasadisehi parisibbitâ.
Kitrâ 'ti vikitra. • Siha-kamma-parikkhatâ nâma pariyantesu, kivaresu anuvâdam viya sîhakammam yogetvâ katâ.
o Udda, an animal, feeding on fish; but Childers thinks it is not an amphibious creature, and therefore not otter.'
Läka-kamma-parikkhatâ (sic) 'ui pakkha-bilâla-kamma-parikkhata. The latter is the flying fox, a large kind of bat.
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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 |