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ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNÍS. - 323
a hundred years standing, shall make salutation to, shall rise up in the presence of, shall bow down before, and shall perform all proper duties towards a Bhikkhu, if only just initiated. This is a rule to be revered and reverenced, honoured and observed, and her life long never to be transgressed.
(2) 'A Bhikkhuni is not to spend the rainy season (of Was) in a district 1 in which there is no Bhikkhu. This is a rule .... never to be transgressed.
(3) 'Every half month a Bhikkhunt is to await from the Bhikkhu-samgha two things, the asking as to the date of) the Uposatha ceremony ?, and the time when the Bhikkhu) will come to give the Exhortation : This is a rule . . . . never to be transgressed.
(4) After keeping the rainy season (of Was), the Bhikkhuni is to hold Pavaraná (to enquire whether any fault can be laid to her charge) before both Samghas—as well that of Bhikkhus as that of Bhikkhunis—with respect to three matters, namely, what has been seen, and what has been heard, and what has been suspected. This is a rule . . . . never to be transgressed.
Sutta Vibhanga, Pakittiya XXI, 3, 1. It is very instructive to notice the curious blunders which the Tibetan writers (translated by Rockhill in his Life of the Buddha,' pp. 62, 63) make in the rendering of the difficult technical terms in these Eight Rules.
Avâsa. Compare Kullavagga I, 18, 1, VI, 15, 1, VIII, 1, 2. This rule is the 56th Bhikkhuni Pakittiya.
The Bhikkhunîs are to ask two or three days beforehand whether the Uposatha is to be held on the 14th or 15th day of the month, says Buddhaghosa here. Compare also the 59th Bhikkhunî Pâkittiya, where the whole passage recurs.
3 Compare the 21st Pakittiya, and our note there
• See Mahavagga IV, 1, 13, 14. This rule is the same as the 57th Bhikkhunî Pâkittiya. The mode of carrying out this rule is explained in detail below, X, 19.
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