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V, 10, 3.
ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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People murmured, were shocked, and indignant, saying, 'As the Titthiyas do.'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to go on your rounds for alms with water-jugs, or pots. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu, who had taken upon himself a vow to wear or use nothing except what he could procure from dust-heaps or cemeteries, went on his rounds for alms carrying a bowl made out of a skull. A certain woman saw him, and was afraid, and made an outcry', saying, 'O horror! This is surely a devil !'
People murmured, were shocked, and indignant, saying, 'How can the Sakyaputtiya Samanas carry about bowls made out of skulls, as the devil-worshippers 2 do?' They told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to use bowls made out of skulls. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkala. And you are not, O Bhikkhus, to take a vow to wear or to use nothing except what you procure from dust-heaps or cemeteries. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
3. Now at that time the Bhikkhus carried out odd bits, and bones, and dirty water in their bowls.
People murmured, were shocked, and were indignant, saying, “The very vessel out of which
Vissaram akâsi, on the use of which idiom see the passages quoted below, Kullavagga VIII, 1, 1.
· Pisakillikâ. See below, 27, 5, and Mahavagga III, 12, 3.
• This list recurs in the Old Commentary on the roth Pakittiya in the Bhikkhuni-vibhanga. As an explanation of vig håsa, Buddhaghosa says here u kkhittodakan ti mukha-vikkhålanodakam.
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