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is overseer shall zealously exert himself to the end that the work on the Vihara may be brought to a rapid conclusion, and shall afterwards cause repairs to be executed wherever the buildings have become broken or worn out ?
3. “And thus, O Bhikkhus, is the work to be given in charge. In the first place a Bhikkhu is to be asked (whether he will undertake the duty). When he has been asked, some able and discreet Bhikkhu is to lay the matter before the Samgha, saying, “Let the venerable Samgha hear me. If the time seems meet to the Samgha, let the Samgha give in charge to such and such a Bhikkhu the Vihara of such and such a householder as a navaka mmam. This is the motion (ñatti). Let the venerable Samgha hear me. The Samgha hereby gives in charge .... (&c., as before). Whosoever of the venerable ones approves thereof, let him keep silence; whosoever approves not thereof, let him speak. The Samgha has given in charge .... (&c., as before). Therefore is it silent. Thus do I understand.”'
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1. Now when the Blessed One had stayed as long as he thought fit at Vesålt he set out towards Savatthi.
* Khandan ti bhinnokáso: phullan ti phalitokâso (B.). The expression recurs below at VI, 17, 1.
* The incident related in the following chapter is identical with the 37th Gâtaka (including the Introductory Story there given) already translated by Rh. D. in the Buddhist Birth Stories, Pp. 310-314.
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