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MAHÂVAGGA.
VI, 37, 5.
sense, not void of sense: to what is void of sense, the bridge is pulled down for the Tathagatas. For two purposes the blessed Buddhas put questions to the Bhikkhus--when they intend to preach the Truth, and when they intend to institute a rule of conduct to their disciples?. And the Blessed One spake thus to that dotard, 'Whence, O Bhikkhu, is this congey ?' · Then that dotard informed the Blessed One of the whole matter.
5. The Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, This is improper, O foolish one, not according to rule, unsuitable, unworthy of a Samana, unbecoming, and ought not to be done. How can you, O foolish one, having gone forth (from the world into the Order), instigate others to do what is unlawful. This will not conduce, O foolish one, to the conversion of the unconverted.'
And when he had rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'One who has gone forth ought not, O Bhikkhus, to instigate others to an unlawful act 2. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata. And one, O Bhikkhus, who has formerly been a barber is not to keep a barber's boy. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata.'
38.
1. And when the Blessed One had tarried at Ātumâ as long as he thought fit, he went on his
* See Mahâvagga I, 31, 5.
· Unlawful, because one Bhikkhu may not beg for others, and it is unlawful for those others to accept things thus procured.
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