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V, 21, 1. ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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Samgha. Whosoever of the venerable ones approves thereof, let him keep silence; whosoever approves not thereof, let him speak.
"" The bowl is turned up again by the Samgha as regards Vaddha the Likkhavi, and he is as one who has dealings with the Samgha. The Samgha approves thereof. Therefore is it silent. Thus do I understand."
21. 1. Now the Blessed One, when he had stayed at Vesali as long as he thought fit, set out on his journey toward Bhaggâ?. And journeying straight on he arrived in due course at Bhagga. And there at Bhagga the Blessed One resided on the Dragon's Hill, in the hermitage in the Bhesakala Wood
Now at that time Bodhi the king's son's mansion, which was called Kokanada, had just been finished, and had not as yet been used by Samana, or by Brâhman, or by any human being. And Bodhi the king's son gave command to the young Brahman, the son of the Sañgika woman“, saying, Come
Bhaggesu. Compare Buddhaghosa's note on a similar plural at Maha-parinibbana Sutta III, 5, quoted in Rh. D.'s Buddhist Suttas from the Pali,' p. 24.
* This place is also mentioned in the Sutta-vibhanga on the 55th and 56th Sekhiyas.
s Anagg havuttho, literally, no doubt, dwelt in.' But it is clear that the meal afterwards taken in it by the Buddha was supposed to be the dedication, so to say, or the house-warming, after which it was agghavuttho.
On this habit of naming people after the family or tribal (not the personal) name of their mothers, see Rh. D.'s note in his Buddhist Suttas,' p. I.
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