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KULLAVAGGA.
XI, 1, 8.
Superhuman conditions.'
Thus did the venerable Maha Kassapa question the venerable Upali as to [all the particulars, as before) of the fourth Pårågika. And in like manner did he question him through both the Vinayas ? ; and as he was successively asked, so did Upâli make reply.
8. Then the venerable Maha Kassapa laid a reso lution before the Samgha : 'Let the venerable Samgha hear me. If the time seems meet to the Samgha, I would question Ananda concerning the Dhamma.
And the venerable Ånanda laid a resolution before the Samgha : 'Let the venerable Samgha hear me. If the time seems meet to the Samgha, I, as questioned by the venerable Maha Kassapa, will give reply.'
And the venerable Maha Kassapa said to the venerable Ananda : 'Where, venerable Ananda, was the Brahmagala spoken?'
'On the way, Sir, between Rågagaha and Nalanda, at the royal rest-house at Ambalatthika ?!
Concerning whom was it spoken ?' •Suppiya, the wandering ascetic, and Brahma- · datta, the young Brâhman.'
Thus did the venerable Maha Kassapa question
i Ubhato-vinaye. That is, relating on the one hand to Bhikkhus, and on the other to Bhikkhunis (not Sutta Vibhanga and Khandhakas). The Burmese MS. at Berlin reads ubhato-vibhange, suggested possibly by Buddhaghosa's expression in the corresponding part of his accounts of this Council at the commencement of the Sumangala Vilâsini and the Samanta Pasadikå (see Turnour, loc. cit., and H. O., Vinaya III, 290.) .
* In the text read râgâgârake, as suggested in the notes at P. 329, and confirmed by the Sutta itself (ed. Grimblot).
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