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KULLAVAGGA.
X, 35, 1.
That did not satisfy their wants. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow Bhikkhunis, O Bhikkhus, to assign certain places to live in to individual members of the Order?!
25. 1. Now at that time a certain woman who had already conceived, but did not know it, was received into the Order among the Bhikkhunis. Afterwards her womb moved within her 2. Then that Bhikkhuni thought : ‘How shall I now conduct myself towards this child ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow her, O Bhikkhus, to bring it up till it have attained to years of discretion 3.'
Then the Bhikkhuni thought: It is not permissible for me to live alone, nor for any other Bhikkhuni to live with a male child. What course ought I to pursue ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow the Bhikkhunts, O Bhikkhus, to depute any one Bhikkhuní, and give her as a companion to that (first-mentioned) Bhikkhuni.'
· Puggalikam kâtum. See the note above on X, 15, 1.
There is a touching story founded on a similar incident which is given as the Introductory Story to No. 12 of the Gatakas, translated in Rh. Di's Buddhist Birth Stories,' pp. 199-205. By the 61st Bhikkhuni På kittiya it is lawful or unlawful to initiate a pregnant woman according as she is unconscious or conscious of the fact of her conception.
8 Viññutam pâpunâti. That is. no doubt, to puberty. Compare the opening phrases of the Introductory Story referred to in the last note (Gâtaka I, 231) and also Gâtaka III, 437.
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