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X, 9, 1.
ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNIS.
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I. Now when the Blessed One had stayed at Vesâli as long as he thought fit, he sat out towards Sâvatthi; and, journeying straight on, he in due course arrived thereat. And there, at Sâvatthi, the Blessed One remained in the Getavana, Anâtha Pindika's Park.
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus threw dirty water over Bhikkhunts, thinking, perhaps, they would fall in love with them'.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhu is not, O Bhikkhus, to throw dirty water at a Bhikkhunt. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow a penalty, O Bhikkhus, to be imposed on that Bhikkhu.
Then the Bhikkhus thought: 'What penalty is it that ought to be imposed on him?' They told this matter to the Blessed One.
That Bhikkhu is to be declared to be one who is not to be saluted by the Bhikkhunt-samgha ".'
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus uncovered their bodies, or their thighs, or their private parts, and showed them to Bhikkhunts, or addressed Bhikkhunts with wicked words, or associated with Bhikkhunis, thinking, perhaps, they would fall in love with them 3.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
1 On sâraggeyyun compare sâraggati at V, 3, 1.
On this decision compare the 'sending to Coventry' of Khanna for levity of conduct towards Bhikkhus at Mahâ-parinibbâna Sutta VI, 4, and Kullavagga XI, 1, 12 (where the penalty is called Brahma-danda).
On sampayogeti compare Kullavagga I, 5, at the end.
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