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....

Mahavagga, Khandaka 7, Chapter 12

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

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12.

'A Bhikkhu intent on finding a comfortable place (to live in), after the Kaṭhina 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 kaṭhinuddhāra and the saha bhikkhūhi kaṭhinuddhāra, which run as may be seen from chap. 2. 2 (the two last cases there) or from chap. 9. 3.

Next: Chapter 13

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

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

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