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KULLAVAGGA.
X, 22, 1.
Now the Bhikkhunis thought: 'Should the carts be yoked with cows or bulls ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a cart yoked with cows or bulls, or drawn by hand 1.'.
Now at that time a certain Bhikkhunt was much distressed by the jolting of the cart.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a litter or sedan chair?'
22. 1. Now at that time a courtesan named Addhakâsi' had adopted the religious life under the Bhikkhunis, and she wanted to go to Sâvatthi to be received as full member of the Order (to receive the upasam pada initiation) by the Blessed One himself. And men of abandoned life heard of it, and beset the road. And when Addhakâst, the courtesan, heard that they had done so, she sent a messenger to the Blessed One, saying: 'I want to receive the upasam pada initiation : what course of action should I adopt ?'
Then the Blessed One, in that connection, addressed the Bhikkhus, after delivering a religious discourse 4, and said: 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to confer the upasa mpada initiation (upon Bhikkhunis) even by a messenger 6.?
· Hattha-vattakam. See the note on Mahavagga V, 10, 3.
So also for Bhikkhus at Mahâvagga V, Io, 3. * On the meaning of this nickname or epithet, compare our note on Mahavagga VIII, 2 (and see also VIII, I, I, and 3).
* As set out in K’ullavagga I, 1; Mahâvagga I, 35, 6. 6 The ordinary rule, no doubt, required, as in the case of Bhik
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