Indian Antiquary Vol 37

SR No.: 032529
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 454
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1908.
APPENDIX.
The Ton“ Points” of Vaicāli.
[Kanjur, Sūtra Vol. 102, fol. 306 (red edition). ]
One hundred and ten years after the Nirvāņa of Buddha, the sun of the Jina declined, and among the monks of Vaiśālī there arose ten illegal practices, contrary to the Sutra and the Vinaya, divergent from the teaching of the Master, foreigu to th: Sūtra, unknown in the Vinaya, contradictory of the Dharma. These illegal practices the monks of Vaiśāli, enjoined as legal, practised, and followed,
What were those ten practices ?
The monks of Vniśāll having rendered legal the exclamation Aho! performed an ecclesiastical act, illegally in an incomplete Sangba, illegally in a complete Sangha, legally in an incomplete Sangha. This was the first practice, contrary to the Sūtra and the Vinaya, divergent from the teaching of the Master, foreign to the Sūtra, unknown in the Vinaya, contradictory of the Dharma, that the monks of Vaisāli, illegal as it was, enjoined as legal, practised, and followed ! (1).
Again, the monks of Vaisali, saying The venerable ones [ absent Brothers] having approved, do ye count it as approved,' caused [the resolutions of the incomplete Samgha ] to be approved by the monks of the parish and rendering the approval legal, performed an ecclesiastical act.... This was the second practice, contrary to the Sutra .... (2).
Again, the monks of Vaiśālī, turning up the soil with their own hands, rendered legal the practice of turning up the soil. This was the third practice, contrary to the Sutra .... (3).
Again, the monks of Vaišāli, mixing salt consacrate for life-time with the [fo od ] appropriate at the moment, declared the salt legal and so acted. This was the fourth practice, contrary, to the Sutra . . . . (4).
Again, the monks of Vaisāli, having gone a yojana and a half-yojans and having eaten food in troop, rendered the meal in troop) legal by reason of the journey, This was the fifth practice, contrary to the Sūtra . . . (5).
Again, the monks of Vaisāli, eating foods of both kinds, not being remainder' (akstan irekta), while making two fingers'(?). rendered legal [ the practice of the ] two fingers. This was the sixth practice, contrary to the Sūtra .... (6).
Again, the monks of Vaisali, drinking fermented liquor with a sucking action like leeches, Tendered [the fermented liquor ] legal by reason of illness. This was the seventh practice, contrary to the Sutra . . .. (7).
Again, the monks of Vaikäli, having agitated a full measure (droņa) of milk and a full measure of cards, eating this preparation) out of time, rendered [this practice ] legal by reason of the mixture. This was the eighth practice, contrary to the Sutra'. ... (8). A