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VI, 11, 1.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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getting a Vihara ready; come, let us turn them out.' Some of them said: 'Let us stay here 1 whilst they get it ready, and turn them out when it is prepared.' So the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus said to the Sattarasa-vaggiyas: 'Depart, Sirs; the Vihara has fallen unto us.'
"Why did you not, Sirs, say so sooner; and we would have got some other one ready ?'
'Is not, then, this Vihara the common property of the Samgha ?''
Yes, Sirs; that is so.' 'Then depart, Sirs; for the Vihara has fallen unto us.'
'It is large, Sirs, this Vihara. You can dwell in it, and we as well.'
Then, full of anger and displeasure, they repeated, Depart, Sirs; this Vihara has fallen unto us.' And seizing them by the throat, they cast them out. And the others, being ejected, wept.
The Bhikkhus asked, 'Why, Sirs, do you weep?'
Then they told them; and the moderate Bhikkhus murmured, &c., and told the matter to the Blessed One. 'Is it true, as they say, &c. ?' 'It is true, Lord.'
Then he rebuked them; and when he had delivered a religious discourse, he said to the Bhikkhus:
'A Bhikkhu is not, O Bhikkhus, to be cast out of a Vihâra, the common property of the Samgha, in anger and vexaticn. Whosoever does so, shall
? Âgametha yâva. Compare the introductory story to the 46th Påkittiya.
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