________________ 324 Homage to Vaisa i (3) Visiting the village, (4) 'Dwelling', (5) "Consent, (6) 'Example', (7) Unchurned milk', (8) Unfermented palm-wine', (9) Seat without fringe', (10) 'Gold and so forth', When this came to the ears of the thera Yasa, the son of the brahman Kakandaka, gifted with the six supernormal powers, who was wandering about in the Vajji country, he betook himself to the Mahavana (vihara) with the resolve to settle the matter. In the uposatha-hall those (monks) had placed a vessel made of metal and filled with water and had said to the lay-folk: "Bestow on the brotherhood1 kahapanas and so on. The tbera forbade them with the word "This is unlawful; give nothing !' Then did they threaten the thera Yasa with the penance called the craving of pardon from lay-folk. He asked for one to bear him company and went with him into the city proclaiming to the citizens, that his teaching was according to the dhamma. Then the bhikkhus heard what (Yasa's) companion had to tell, they came to brust him out and surrounded the thera's horse. The thera left it, rising up and passing through the air, and halting at Kosambi, he forthwith sent messengers to the bhikkhus of Pava and Avanti; he himself went to the Ahoganga-mountain and related all to the thera Sambhuta Sanavasi. Sixty great theras from Pava and eighty from Avanti, all free from the asavas, came together on the Ahoganga. The bhikkus who met together (iv, Holding the uposatha-feast separately by monks dwelling in the same district. (v) The carrying out of official acts by an incomplete chapter, on the supposition that the consent of absent bhikkhus was obtained afterwards. (vi) The following of a practice because it is so done by one's tutor or teacher. (vii) Taking unchurned milk, even after the meal-time. (viii) Drinking unfermented palm-wine. (ix) The use of mats to sit on which were not of tbe prescribed size, if they were without fringe. (x) Accepting gold and silver. [Ed.] 1. A square copper coin (Skr. karsapana).
