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.
VI, 40, 2.
some particular or other, they thinking, 'Has this been permitted by the Blessed One, or has it not?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Whatsoever, O Bhikkhus, has not been disallowed by me in the words, "This beseems you not," then, if that thing is in accord with what is unlawful, and is contrary to what is lawful, that is not lawful. Whatsoever has not been disallowed by me with the words, "This beseems you not," then, if that thing is in accord with what is lawful, and is contrary to what is unlawful, that is lawful.
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'And whatsoever, O Bhikkhus, has not been allowed by me with the words, "This beseems you," then, if that thing is in accord with what is lawful, and is contrary to what is unlawful, that is not lawful. Whatsoever has not been allowed by me with the words, "This beseems you," then, if that thing is in accord with what is lawful, and is contrary to what is unlawful, that is lawful'.'
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2. Then the Bhikkhus thought: 'Is food that may be eaten till the first watch of the night' lawful, or not, when mixed with food that ought to be eaten before noon on the same day? Is food that may be eaten at any time within seven days lawful, or not, when mixed with food that ought to be eaten before noon on the same day? Is food that may be eaten at any time during life lawful, or not, when mixed with food that ought to be eaten
1 The formal expressions referred to in these two paragraphs are precisely the expressions to which, in the Book of the Great Decease VI, 40, and in the Kullavagga XI, 1, 1, Subhadda is stated to have taken such serious objection.
2 This refers to certain medicines; see Mahâvagga VI, 1, 5. This also refers to certain medicines; see the 23rd Nissaggiya. • What this refers to is unknown to us.
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