Vinaya Texts, Part III: The Kullavagga IV–XII — SBE Vol. 20 (1885)

‘You are not, O Bhikkhus, to separate yourselves for four months from the mats on which you sit

1 Vihanvitanti. See V, 11, 6.

* Udakayatikan ti udakassa 4gamana-mattikam (B.). Compare 4yataka at IX, 1, 3.

® See above our note on V, 14, 3.

‘ Nillekha-gantagharam nâma 4viddha-pakkha-p4sakam vukkati. Gopdnasinam upari-mandale pakkha-pasake /shapetva kata-k(/a-kkhadanass’ etam nimam (B.).

5 Compare the 2nd Nissaggiya.

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down. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkaféa.’

Now at that time the XZabbaggiya Bhikkhus lay down to sleep on beds scattered over with flowers.

People who came on a visit to the Vihdras saw it, and murmured, &c., saying, ‘ Like those who still live in the pleasures of the world.’

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

‘You are not, O Bhikkhus, to sleep on beds scattered over with flowers. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukka/a,’

Now at that time people came to the Ardma, bringing perfumes and garlands. The Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not accept them.

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

‘T allow you, O Bhikkhus, to accept the perfume, and to apply it to the door for a space of five fingerbreadths!; and to accept the flowers, and put them on one side in the Vih4ra.

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1. Now at that time a sheath of felt? had come into the possession of the Samgha.

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

‘I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a sheath.’

The Bhikkhus considered whether a sheath was a thing which each one might keep for himself, or a thing which ought to be handed over from time to time by one Bhikkhu to another.’

1 Kava/e pawkangulikam datum, on which Buddhaghosa has no note. This measure occurs in Gataka I, 166, 192; Fausbdll’s ‘Five Gatakas’ 6; and Mahavamsa, p. 193.

2 Namatakam. See V, 11, 1.

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‘A sheath, O Bhikkhus, is neither to be appropriated nor to be handed over'.’

Now at that time the Kabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to eat lying on decorated divans.

People murmured, &c..... saying, ‘Like those still living in the pleasures of the world.’

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

‘You are not, O Bhikkhus, to eat lying on decorated divans *. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkaéa.’

Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu was sick, and’ when eating he was not able to hold his bowl in his hand. .

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

‘I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a stand for the bowl 3’

Now at that time the Aabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to eat out of one dish, to drink out of one vessel, and to lie on one bed, one coverlet, or one mat‘.

The people murmured, &c.....

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

'Na adhi/‘Aatabbam na vikappetabbam. That is, it is
always to be kept as common property of the Samgha (Samg hika).
See Mahdvagga VIII, 20, 2, where the same expressions occur.

The people murmured, &c.....

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

'Na adhi/‘Aatabbam na vikappetabbam. That is, it is
always to be kept as common property of the Samgha (Samg hika).
See Mahdvagga VIII, 20, 2, where the same expressions occur.

* AsittakQpadhanam ndâma tamba-lohena va ragatena v4 kataya pe/aya (MS. belfya) etam adhivatanam. The use of an ubhato-lohitakipadhAnam is condemned, among other things of a like kind, in the Magghima Sila, § 5 (Rh. D.’s ‘ Buddhist - Suttas,’ p. 193), and above, Mahavagga V, 10, 2.

* MaJorik4 ti dandadhfrako vuéhati. Yasshi-Adharaka-pannddharaka-pakAhita-pi//hani pi etth’ eva pavis/‘hani. Adhfraka-samkhepana-gamanato hi passhiya khiddam viddham pi aviddham pi vatfati yeva (B.).

* All these words have already occurred above at Kullavagga I, 13,1. ‘Sitting on one seat’ is there added to the list.

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‘You are not, O Bhikkhus, [to do any of these things.] Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkaZa,’

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1. Now at that time Vaddha the Lif#&havi was a friend of the Bhikkhus ‘who were followers of Mettiya and Bhummagaka'. Now Vaddha the Ligéhkavi went up to the place where those Bhik-

*khus were, and on arriving there he said to them, ‘My salutation to you, Sirs!’ When he had thus spoken, the Bhikkhus who were followers of Mettiya and Bhummagaka gave him no reply. And a second and a third time [he said the same words, and still received no reply}.

‘Wherein have I offended you, Sirs? Why do you give me no reply ?’

‘Therein, that you, friend, sit contented while we are being molested by Dabba the Mallian.’

‘But what, Sirs, can I do?’

‘If you wished it, friend, to-day even would the
Blessed One expel Dabba the Mallian.

‘But what shall I do, Sirs? What is that it is in my power to do?’

‘Come then, friend Vaddka. Do you go up to the place where the Blessed One is, and when you have come there, say as follows: “This, Lord, is neither fit nor becoming that the very quarter of the heavens which ought to be safe, secure, and free from danger, following sections. Our sections 1, 2 are nearly the same as §§ 8, 9 there.

1 These are two of the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus; and the evil deeds of the followers form the subject of Xullavagga IV, 4, 5 and

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that from that very quarter should arise danger, calamity, and distress—that where one ought to expect a calm, that just there one should meet a gale! Methinks the very water has taken fire! My wife has been defiled by Dabba the Mallian!”’

2. ‘Very well, Sirs!’ said Vaddha the Likshavi,
accepting the word of the followers of Mettiya and
Bhummagaka. And he went up to the Blessed One
[and spake even as he had been directed].

Then the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhusamgha, and asked the venerable Dabba the Mallian:

‘Are you conscious, Dabba, of having done such a thing as this Vaddha says ?’

‘As my Lord, the Blessed One, knows.’

Then the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhusamgha, and asked the venerable Dabba the Mallian:

‘Are you conscious, Dabba, of having done such a thing as this Vaddha says ?’

‘As my Lord, the Blessed One, knows.’

[And a second, and a third time, the Blessed One asked the same question, and received the same reply.]

‘The Dabbas, O Dabba, do not thus repudiate.
If you have done it, say so. If you have not done
it, say you have not.’

‘Since I was born, Lord, I cannot call to mind that I have practised sexual intercourse, even in a dream, much less when I was awake!’

3. Then the Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: ‘Let then the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, turn the bowl down? in respect of Vaddha the Likkhavi,

1 See the note above on IV, 4, 9.

2 Pattam nikkuggatu. This phrase is used in the ordinary signification above, V, 9, 4. It is characteristic of the mildness of early Buddhism that this should be the only penalty imposed upon a layman. Compare H. O.’s remarks in his ‘ Buddha, sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde,’ pp. 391-393. The house of such a layman becomes then an agoéaro, an ‘ unlawful resort.’ (Xullavagga VIII, 1, 2.)

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and make him incapable of granting an alms to the Samgha}.

‘There are eight things, O Bhikkhus, which when they characterise an Updsaka, the bowl is to be turned down in respect of him;—when he goes about to bring loss of gifts on the Bhikkhus, when he goes about to bring harm to the Bhikkhus, when he goes about to cause the Bhikkhus to want a place of residence, when he reviles or slanders the Bhikkhus, when he causes divisions between Bhikkhus and Bhikkhus ;—when he speaks in dispraise of the Buddha ;—when he speaks in dispraise of the Dhamma ;—when he speaks in dispraise of the Samgha. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to turn down the bowl in respect of an Up4saka who is characterised by these eight things *’

4. ‘And thus, O Bhikkhus, is the bowl to be turned down. Some able and discreet Bhikkhu is to lay the matter before the Samgha, saying,

1 Asambhogam samghena karotu. This phrase is used in regard to a Bhikkhu at Xullavagga I, 25, 1, as the distinctive mark of the Act of Suspension (Ukkhepaniya-kamma), and there means ‘ depriving him of his right to eat and dwell with the other Bhikkhus.’ Sambhoge an4patti at Mahavagga I, 79, 2 (at the end), means that it is not an offence for the Bhikkhus to eat and dwell together with a guilty Bhikkhu under certain conditions there specified. As an Updsaka never, under any circumstances, either eats or dwells together with the Bhikkhus (in PAfittiya 5 the reference is to simazeras), the meaning here must be to make him one who has no dealings with the Samgha, to withdraw his privilege of providing food or lodging for the Samgha. The sabhoganam kulam in the 43rd PAâgittiya has probably nothing to do with this.