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V, 2, 6. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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You are not, O Bhikkhus, to anoint your faces, nor to rub (ointment, &c.) into your faces, nor to put chunam on your faces, nor to smear red arsenic on your faces, nor to paint your bodies, nor to paint your faces 1.'
Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had disease in his eyes. They told the matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, on account of disease, to anoint your faces.
6? Now at that time there was a festival on the mountain-top: at Rågagaha ; and the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus went to see it.
The people murmured, were annoyed, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the Sakyaputtiya Samanas go to see dancing, and singing, and music, like those who are still enjoying the pleasures of the world ?' And they told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to go to see dancing, or singing, or music. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
All these practices are seriatim forbidden to the Bhikkhunis also in Kullavagga X, 10, 3.
The following section recurs, almost word for word, of the Bhikkhunîs, in the Bhikkhuni-vibhanga, Pakittiya X (Sutta-vibhanga, vol. ii, p. 267).
• Giragga-samagga. Compare Dîpavamsa XXI, 32, and Mahavamsa, p. 214, line 2. It occurs also in the Introductory Story in the Sutta-vibhanga on the 37th Pâkittiya, and Buddhaghosa there explains it as follows: Giragga-samaggo ti girimhi agga-samaggo girissa vâ agga-dese samaggo. He is evidently in doubt about the word, which is probably connected with ancient local worship or custom, a worship in high-places, as little allied to Vedic Brahmanism as it was to Buddhism,
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