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MAHÂVAGGA.
V, 10, 1.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
Do not have yourselves carried in vehicles, O Bhikkhus. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
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1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu, as he was passing through the Kosala country to Sâvatthi, to visit the Blessed One, was taken ill on the way. And that Bhikkhu went aside out of the road, and sat down at the foot of a certain tree.
When people saw him sitting there, they said: Whither is your reverence going ?'
'I am going, friends, to Sâvatthi to visit the Blessed One!
2. "Come along, Sir; let us go together.' 'I cannot, friends. I am sick.'
Well then, Sir, get up into the cart.' 'Enough, friends! The Blessed One has forbidden the use of vehicles.' And fearing to offend, he refused to get up into the cart.
And when that Bhikkhu had come to Savatthi, he told this thing to the Bhikkhus, and they told it to the Blessed One.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, if you are sick, to use a cart.'
Now the Bhikkhus thought : 'Should the carts be yoked with cows or bulls ?'
well-known affluent of the Ganges, which is one of the Mahanadis. Compare Kullavagga IX, 1, 3, Spence Hardy's Manual,' p. 17, and the Dhaniya Sutta in the Sutta Nipâta.
1 Kullavagga X, 21 gives the rules for sisters of the Order, corresponding to the first two sections of this chapter.
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