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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VII, 1, 5.
'When, O Bhikkhus, has it not been duly held?' 'The Kathina ceremony has not been duly held when the stuff has only been marked (for the purposes of measurement)1: when it has only been washed: when it has only been calculated (to see how many robes it will make): when it has only been cut out when it has only been pieced together 2: when it has only been sewn in lengths: when it has only been marked: when it has only been made strong (in the seams): when it has only
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not completed by any one of the following acts having been performed. The technical terms of the tailor's craft are, as will be seen, by no means easy to follow.
1 Ullikhita-mattenâ 'ti dighato ka puthulato ka pamâna- . gahana-mattena. Pamânam hi ganhanto tassa tassa padesassa sangânanattham nakhâdîhi vâ parikkhedam dassento ullikhati, nalâtâdisu vâ ghamsati. Tasmâ tam pamâna-gahanam ullikhita-mattan ti vukkati (B.).
Bandhana-mattenâ 'ti mogha-suttak-âropana-mattena (B.). Mogha-suttakâni, 'false threads,' are threads put in the cloth to show where it is to be cut or sewn. See Buddhaghosa on Kullavagga V, 11, 3 (p. 317 of H. O.'s edition). Our clause therefore means temporarily pieced together as the commencement of the tailoring work.
Ovattiya (sic) -karana-matten â'ti mogha-suttakânusârena digha-sibbita-mattena (B.). Sewn in lengths along the lines of the false threads mentioned in the last note. The word occurs also in Mahâvagga VIII, 14, 2; and in Kullavagga V, 1, 2 we are told that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus ovatlikam dhârenti. Buddhaghosa says there vigghita-karanam ovallikâ.
By joining on a little piece of cloth. Kandusa-karanamattenâ 'ti muddiya-patta-bandhana-mattena, says Buddhaghosa.
Dalhi-karana-mattenâ 'ti dve kimilikâyo (MS. kilimikâyo) ekato katvâ sibbita-mattena: athavâ pa/hama-kimilikâ gha//etvâ thapitâ hoti, kathina-sâtakam tassâ kukkhi-kimilikam katvâ sappita(read sibbita-) mattenâ 'ti pi attho. Mahâ-pakkariyam pakatikivarassa upassaya-dânenâ 'ti vuttam. Kurundiyam pakatipattakivaram dupattam kâtum kukkhi-kimilikam alliyâpana-mattenâ 'ti vuttam (B.). On kimilikâ compare Minayeff's 'Prâtimoksha,' p. 87.
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