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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PAKITTIYA DHAMMA.
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robbers, knowing it to be such, even as far as the next village1-that is a Pâkittiya.
67. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall, by appointment, journey along the same route with a woman, even as far as the next village that is a Pâkittiya.
68. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall speak thus: 'In this wise do I understand that the Dhamma has been proclaimed by the Blessed One: that to him who cultivates those Qualities which have been called "dangerous" by the Blessed One, there is not sufficient danger (to prevent his acquiring spiritual gifts); then that Bhikkhu should be addressed by the Bhikkhus thus: 'Say not so, brother! bear not false witness against the Blessed One! For neither is it seemly to bring a false accusation against the Blessed One, nor could the Blessed One speak so. By many a figure, brother, have the Dangerous Qualities. been declared by the Blessed One to be full of danger, and also to be sufficient to prevent him who cultivates them (from attaining spiritual gifts). If that Bhikkhu, when he has thus been spoken to by the Bhikkhus, should persist as before, then let that Bhikkhu be (formally) admonished about it by the Bhikkhus as a body, even to the third time, to the intent that he abandon that course.
1 Compare the 27th Pâkittiya. A caravan that sets out with intent to steal or rob on the way is meant.
2 Compare the 27th and 28th Pâkittiyas.
3 These are specified in detail in Mahâvagga II, 3, 7.
4 Pariyâya; fulness, extent, of illustration and explanation. Not merely manner, or method, of statement. Much of this pariyâya will be found in the various similes used in the Kullavagga loc. cit.
In the text here, and in the corresponding clause of No. 70, read anekapariyâyena âvuso antarâyikâ dhammâ antarâyikâ vuttâ bhagavatâ, as in Kullavagga I, 32.
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