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, 6.
when the ceremony has had to be abandoned (because it has lasted through the night) 1: when the ceremony has fallen through (from other causes): when (in the formal choice by the presiding Bhikkhu) the upper robes have been left out, or the under robes, or the waist-cloths: when any one of the five parts of the robe have been omitted in the cutting out3: when the ceremony has been presided over by more than one Bhikkhu. And even when the Kathina ceremony has (otherwise) been normally performed, if (the Samgha) ratifying the distribution, be other than the (whole Samgha) dwelling within the boundary, then also the Kathina ceremony has not been duly held".
THE KATHINA CEREMONIES.
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'In these cases, O Bhikkhus, the Kathina ceremony has not been duly held.
6. And when, O Bhikkhus, has the Kathina ceremony been duly held?'
'When the robes have been made out of new
ka nikaya-sannidhi ka. Tattha tadah' eva akatvâ thapetvâ karanam karana-sannidhi; samgho agga kathina-dussam labhitvâ puna-divase deti ayam nikaya-sannidhi (B.).
1 Nissaggiyenâ 'ti ratti-nissaggiyena. Parivâre pi, vuttam nissaggiyam nâma kayiramâne arunam udriyatîti (B.).
Akappa-katenâ 'ti anâdinna-kappa-bindhunâ (B.), which we do not understand. Perhaps we should read bindunâ.
Aññatra pañkakena vâ atireka-pañkakena vâ 'ti pañka vâ atirekâni vâ khandani katvâ mahâ-mandala-addha-mandalâni dassetvâ katen' eva valtati. Evam hi samandali-katam hoti. Tam thapetvâ aññena akkhinnakena vâ dvi-tti-katu-khandena vâ na valtati (B.). On these five parts of the robe compare below, Mahâvagga VIII, 12, 2.
Aññatra puggalassa atthârâ 'ti puggalassa atthâram thapetvå na aññena samghassa vâ ganassa vâ atthârena atthatam hoti (B.). The official 'distributor' (atthâraka) must be a single person, not a gana, or the Samgha.
See the note on § 4, and below, VIII, 23.
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