Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka
by I. B. Horner | 2014 | 386,194 words | ISBN-13: 9781921842160
The English translation of the Khandhaka: the second book of the Pali Vinaya Pitaka, one of the three major 鈥榖askets鈥� of Therevada canonical literature. It is a collection of various narratives. The English translation of the Vinaya-pitaka (third part, khandhaka) contains many Pali original words, but transliterated using a system similar to the I...
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The story of 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补
Kd.5.13.1 Now at that time[1] the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great[2] was staying among the people of 础惫补苍迟墨[3] at Osprey鈥檚 Haunt[4] on Steep Rock mountain slope.[5] Now at that time the lay-follower, 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补[6], was a supporter of the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great. Then the lay-follower, 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补, approached the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great; having BD.4.261 approached, having greeted the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great, he sat down at a respectful distance. As he was sitting down at a respectful distance, the lay-follower, 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补, spoke thus to the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great:
鈥淚n so far as I, honoured sir, understand dhamma taught by the master, 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great, it is no easy matter for one living in a house to lead the Brahma-faring which is utterly complete, utterly pure and polished like a conch-shell. I want, honoured sir, having cut off hair and beard, having donned yellow robes, to go forth from home into homelessness. Honoured sir, may the master 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great let me go forth.鈥�
Kd.5.13.2 He said: 鈥淒ifficult, 厂辞峁嘺, for as long as life lasts are the solitary sleeping-place,[7] the one meal (a day), the Brahma-faring. Please do you, 厂辞峁嘺, being a householder as before,[8] practise the instruction of the awakened ones for a short time[9]: the solitary sleeping-place, the one meal (a day), the Brahma-faring.鈥�
Then that abated which had been the lay follower 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补鈥檚 strong aspiration for the going forth.[10] But a second time did the lay follower 厂辞峁嘺 Vin.1.195 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补 鈥� But a third time did the lay follower 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补 approach the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great 鈥� as in Kd.5.13.1 鈥溾�� Honoured sir, may the master 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great let me go forth.鈥� Then the venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great let the lay-follower 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补 go forth. Now at that time the southern region of 础惫补苍迟墨[11] came to be short of monks. Then did the BD.4.262 venerable 碍补肠肠腻苍补 the Great at the end of three years, with difficulty, with trouble, having had convened from here and there an Order of monks consisting of ten,[12] ordain the venerable 厂辞峁嘺.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
To end of Kd.5.13.10, cf. Ud.5.6, Dhp-a.iv.101ff.
[2]:
At AN.i.23 called foremost of the expounders in full of what was spoken in brief. Verses at Thag.494. One of the eleven or twelve leading theras; cf. Vinaya Texts, ii.317, Vinaya Texts, ii.359, BD.2.295, GS.iii.215. See Gotama the Man, p.113.
[3]:
See , Early History of the Spread of Buddhism, Vol.1, p.187ff. He points out that 础惫补苍迟墨 鈥渦nder the guidance of Mah膩kacc膩yana helped by 厂辞峁嘺 碍耻峁璱办补峁囜箛补 鈥� became an important centre of Buddhism鈥� (p.189). On 础惫补苍迟墨 see also , Geography of Early Buddhism, p.3, n.1, 22f., p.61.
[4]:
Kuraraghara, the name of a town (nagara) or village where 碍补肠肠腻苍补 went for alms (驳辞肠补谤补驳腻尘补), Vin-a.1087.
[5]:
He is recorded to stay here also at SN.iii.9, SN.iii.12, SN.iv.115, AN.v.46, Ud.57. Our text reads 辫补辫腻迟别 pabbate; the others pavatte (with variant readings) pabbate. At Vin-a.1087, 辫补辫腻迟补 is said to be the name of a mountain slope. Cf. however SN-a.ii.258, which recognises the two readings, 辫补辫腻迟别 and pavatte, and says of 辫补辫腻迟别 pabbate that 鈥渋t was steep (or had a precipice) on one side: it was as though one flank had been hewn off鈥�.
[6]:
Chief of those of clear utterance, AN.i.24. Verses at Thag.365. Vin-a.1087, AN-a.i.237 say he wore ornaments worth a crore (办辞峁璱) in his ears, and also give the reading 办辞峁璱ka峁囜箛a, which can mean equally 鈥淐rore-eared鈥� or 鈥淧ointed-eared, Prick-eared鈥�; see Vinaya Texts ii.32, n.3, Psalms of the Bretheren p.202, GS.i.18, n.4, Verses of Uplift, p.68.
[7]:
别办补蝉别测测腻, exact significance obscure. At BD.2.196 a monk is allowed to lie down in a sleeping place for two or three nights with one who is not ordained. It seems as if he might also do so with an ordained monk, for on this occasion there is no offence if he thinks a person is ordained and he is. At BD.2.201 there is an offence if a monk so lies down with a woman.
[8]:
tatth鈥� eva.
[9]:
办腻濒补测耻迟迟补. This is to show how difficult these things are. 碍腻濒补测耻迟迟补 could also signify connected with the right time (for doing things), and would then emphasise that now is not a right time for 厂辞峁嘺 to go forth, being not sufficiently ready spiritually to do so.
[11]:
础惫补苍迟墨dakkhi峁嚹乸atha, as at Vin.2.298, Ja.iii.463. See Dictionary of Pali Proper Names under 顿补办办丑颈峁嚹乸补迟丑补, , Buddhist India, p.30, and , Geography of Early Buddhism, p.22. At the time of the Council of Ves膩l墨, about eighty-eight monks of 础惫补苍迟墨dakkhi峁嚹乸atha, some of them followers of ascetic practices, 诲丑耻迟补峁単补, are said to have collected on the Ahoga峁単膩 mountain slope, Vin.2.299.
[12]:
Vin.1.319 says that an Order may consist of four, five, ten, twenty or more than twenty monks, and that various maximum numbers are required for carrying out various specific formal acts, ten monks being able to perform them all, except rehabilitation; but five monks were not able to ordain in the Middle Districts.