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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MAHAVAGGA.
V, 13, 4.
Maha Kakkayana was, and saluted him, and took his seat beside him. And when he was thus seated, he said to the venerable Maha Kakkâyana:
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4. 'When I was meditating alone, venerable Sir, the following thought occurred to my mind, "I have heard (&c., as above)." Now I would go and visit the Blessed One, the Arahat Buddha, if you, as my superior, allow it.'
'That is good, that is good, Sona! Go then, Sona, to visit the Blessed One, the Arahat Buddha. [5.] You shall see, Sona, how the Blessed One arouses faith, is worthy of faith, calm in his senses, calm in his mind, gifted with the highest self-control and quietude, an elephant among men, subdued, guarded, with his senses in subjection to himself. Do you therefore, Sona, bow down in my name at the feet of the Blessed One, and say, "Lord! my superior, the venerable Maha Kakkâyana, bows down in salutation at the feet of the Blessed One!" and add, "In the Southern country and in Avanti there are, Lord, but few Bhikkhus. And it was only after the lapse of three years that with difficulty and with trouble an assembly of the Order was got together, in which ten members were present, and I could be received into the higher rank of the Order. May the Blessed One be pleased, therefore, to allow the higher ordination in the Southern country and in Avanti before a meeting of a lesser number. [6.] In the Southern country and in Avanti, Lord, the soil is black on the surface 1, rough, and trampled by the feet of cattle '.
1 Kanhuttarâ 'ti kanha-mattik-uttarâ upari-vaddhitâ kanha-mattikâ (B.). Alwis translates, 'overrun with thorns.'
Gokantaka-hatâ 'ti gunnam khurehi akkanta-bhumito samu/thehi go-kantakehi upahatâ. Te kira gokantake ekapatalikâ upâhanâ
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