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Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga

by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words

The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples� awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....

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Mahavagga, Khandaka 7, Chapter 12

SBE 17: Seventh <a data-gl="1" href="/definition/khandhaka" title="show Khandhaka definitions">Khandhaka</a>: Chapter 12

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'A Bhikkhu intent on finding a comfortable place (to live in), after the ṻԲ ceremony has been held, takes a robe, and goes away, thinking, "I will go to such and such a residence; if it is comfortable there, I will remain there if it is not, I will go to such and such a residence; if it is comfortable there, I will remain there; if it is not, I will go to such and such a residence; if it is comfortable there, I will remain there; if it is not, I will go back."

'When he has got beyond the boundary, he thinks, "I will have the robe made up here, and will never go back," &c.[1]'

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End of the five cases of the Bhikkhu intent on comfort.

Footnotes

168:3 The usual three cases as before, and then the two cases of the sīmātikkantika 첹ṻԳܻ and the saha bhikkhūhi 첹ṻԳܻ, which run as may be seen from chap. 2. 2 (the two last cases there) or from chap. 9. 3.

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The usual three cases as before, and then the two cases of the sīmātikkantika 첹ṻԳܻ and the saha bhikkhūhi 첹ṻԳܻ, which run as may be seen from chap. 2. 2 (the two last cases there) or from chap. 9. 3.

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