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(not more than) three shall enjoy an alms (together) at people's houses and this for the sake of three reasons; (to wit) for the restraint of the evil-minded, and for the ease of the good ?, lest those who have evil desires should, in reliance upon a particular party (among the Bhikkhus), break up the Samgha”, and lastly) out of compassion for the laity. (A Bhikkhu) who shall enjoy an alms in parties of more than three, shall be dealt with according to law !!
14. Now Devadatta went to the place where Kokâlika, and Katamoraka-tissaka, and the son of Khanda-devi and Samudda-datta were, and said to them, 'Come, Sirs, let us stir up a division in the Samana Gotama's Samgha, and in the body of his adherents !
When he had thus spoken, Kokalika said to Devadatta, 'The Samana Gotama, Sir, is mighty and powerful. How can we do such a thing]?'
Come, Sirs, let us go to the Samana Gotama, and make the following five demands, saying,
"This whole phrase recurs in Sutta-vibhanga, Pârâgika I, 5, 11, and in the Anguttara Nikâya II, 17, 3. In the latter passage Dr. Morris reads dummaññûnam; see his note at pp. 127, 128. But the Sanskrit Buddhist vocabulary Vyutpatti (teste BöhtlingkRoth, s. v. manku) authorises the use of dummanku.
* So the Anguttara, loc. cit., has, in the same connection, gihinam anukampaya pâpikkhânam pakk hupakkhedâya.
. See last note. The idea is here, of course, lest any particular layman should be burdened by providing for many Bhikkhus.
• That is, under the 32nd Pakittiya, on which rule the Suttavibhanga explains the phrase gana-bhogana.
Sections 14, 15, and the greater part of 16 recur, word for word, as the introductory story to the roth Samghâdisesa.
• In kakka-bhedam the first word no doubt connotes 'kingdom, lordship,' as in dhamma-kakka, kakkavatti, &c.
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