Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 48

1. At that time a certain smith^[1] who was bald-headed, having had a quarrel with his father and mother, had gone to the Ārāma and received pabbajjā with the Bhikkhus. Now the father and mother of that bald-headed smith, searching after that bald-headed smith, came to the Ārāma and asked the Bhikkhus: 'Pray, reverend Sirs, have you seen such and such a boy?'

The Bhikkhus, who did not know him, said: 'We do not know him;' having not seen him, they said: 'We have not seen him.'

2. Now the father and mother of that bald-headed smith, searching after that bald-headed smith, found him ordained with the Bhikkhus; they were annoyed, &c.: 'These Sakyaputtiya Samaṇas are shameless, wicked, and liars. They knew him and said: "We do not know him;" they had seen him and said: "We have not seen him." This boy has been ordained with the Bhikkhus.'

Now some Bhikkhus heard the father and mother of that bald-headed smith, who were annoyed, &c. Those Bhikkhus told the thing to the Blessed One.

'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that the Saṃgha's permission is asked for having (the new coming Bhikkhus) shaved.'

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[1]:

Buddhaghosa explains kammārabhaṇḍu by tulātaramuṇḍako (read tulādhāram.) suvaṇṇakāraputto. At Dhammapada, v. 239, kammāra is said of a silversmith. There was probably no distinction in these early times between gold, silver, copper, and iron smiths; the same man being an artificer in all kinds of metal.

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