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 1, Chapter 13
1. And the Blessed One, after having kept the vassa residence[1], thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'By wise contemplation, O Bhikkhus, and by wise firmness of exertion have I attained the highest emancipation, have I realised the highest emancipation. Attain ye also, O Bhikkhus, the highest emancipation, realise the highest emancipation, by wise contemplation and by wise firmness of exertion.'
2. And Māra the wicked One went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him, he addressed the Blessed One by the following stanza: 'Thou art bound by Māra's fetters, human and divine. Thou art bound by strong fetters. Thou wilt not be delivered from me, O Samaṇa.'
(Buddha replied): 'I am delivered from Māra's fetters, human and divine. I am delivered from the strong fetters. Thou art struck down; O Death.'
Then Māra the wicked One understood: 'The Blessed One knows me, the perfect One knows me;' and, sad and afflicted, he vanished away.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
See about the vassa residence the rules given in Book III.