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IX, 1, 3. ON EXCLUSION FROM THE PÂTIMOKKHA.
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and went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and said to him, 'Lord, I have made that man go out. The assembly is now undefiled. May my lord the Blessed One recite the Pâtimokkha to the Bhikkhus.'
• How astonishing and curious a thing it is, Moggallâna, that that foolish fellow should have waited up to the very point when he had to be taken by the arm.'
3. And the Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus: • There are, O Bhikkhus, in the great ocean, then, eight astonishing and curious qualities, by the constant perception of which the mighty creatures take delight in the great ocean. And what are the eight?
• The great ocean, O Bhikkhus, gets gradually deeper, slope following on slope, hollow succeeding hollow, and the fall is not precipitously abrupt?. This is the first [of such qualities] ?
Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean remains of the same natures, and passes not beyond the shore. This is the second [of such qualities].
Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean will not brook association with a dead corpse. Whatsoever dead corpse there be in the sea, that will it-and quickly-draw to the shore, and cast it out on the dry ground. This is the third [of such qualities).
'Again, O Bhikkhus, all the great rivers—that is to say, the Ganga, the Yamunâ, the Akiravati, the
Na â yataken'eva. See Kullavagga V, 3, I, and V, 17, 2. • Paragraph 1 is here, and in the succeeding paragraphs, repeated in full. · Thita-dhammo, 'has characteristics which are stable.'
For ussâreti read ussâdeti. See our note on VI, 11, 3..
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