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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VI, 19, 2.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
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19. 1. Now at that time a family who were devoted to the venerable Upananda, of the Sakya clan, sent hard food for the Samgha, saying, 'This is to be given to the Samgha with especial reference to the venerable Upananda.'
Now at that time the venerable Upananda of the Sakya clan had gone forth to the village for alms. And those men went to the Arâma, and asked the Bhikkhus :
Where, Sirs, is the venerable Upananda ?' 'The venerable Upananda of the Sakya clan has gone forth to the village for alms.'
*This hard food, Sirs, is to be given to the Samgha, with especial reference to the venerable Upananda.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
In that case, O Bhikkhus, receive it, and put it aside till Upananda returns.'
2. And the venerable Upananda, after having attended on the families in the forenoon, returned during the (after-part of the) day.
Now at that time, during the scarcity, people invited the Bhikkhus to a slender meal; and they,
finished, and has declared himself to have done so by declining further food, can still take leavings' without offending. By this rule he is also allowed to take food tato nîhatam, literally, brought out thence,' which seems to mean 'out of the store of the giver.' The expression recurs in VI, 32, 1, and again in VI, 32, 2 (at the end), where the exceptions to Pâkittiya 35 laid down in this and the following rules are again, the scarcity having passed away, put aside by the Blessed One.'
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