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KULLAVAGGA.
X, 1, 1.
TENTH KHANDHAKA.
ON THE DUTIES OF Bhikkhunis.
1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was staying among the Säkyas in Kapilavatthu, in the Nigrodhârâma. And Maha-pagapatt the Gotami went to the place where the Blessed One was, and on arriving there, bowed down before the Blessed One, and remained standing on one side. And so standing she spake thus to the Blessed One:
'It would be well, Lord, if women should be allowed to renounce their homes and enter the homeless state under the doctrine and discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata.
'Enough, O Gotamt! Let it not please thee that women should be allowed to do so.'
[And a second and a third time did Mahâ-pagapati the Gotami make the same request in the same words, and receive the same reply.]
Then Maha-pagâ pati the Gotami sad and sorrowful for that the Blessed One would not permit women to enter the homeless state, bowed down before the Blessed One, and keeping him on her right hand as she passed him, departed thence weeping and in tears.
2. Now when the Blessed One had remained at Kapilavatthu as long as he thought fit, he set out on his journey towards Vesâlt; and travelling
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