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 2, Chapter 13
1. At that time the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus made one boundary overlap another one (which had been determined before by other Bhikkhus).
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“The act of those who have determined their boundary first is lawful, unobjectionable, and valid. The act of those who have determined their boundary afterwards is unlawful, objectionable, and invalid. Let no one, O Bhikkhus, make one boundary overlap another one. He who does, commits a dukkaṭa offence.”
2. At that time the Chabbaggiya Bhikkhus made one boundary encompass another one (which had been determined before by other Bhikkhus).
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“The act of those, &c. (see § 1). Let no one, O Bhikkhus, make one boundary encompass another one. He who does, commits a dukkaṭa offence. I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that he who determines a boundary, is to determine it so as to leave an interstice[1] between the boundaries.”
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Buddhaghosa prescribes to leave an interstice of one hattha, and he adds that the ancient Sinhalese commentaries differ as to the measure required for this interstice: the Kurundi requires one vidatthi, the Mahāpaccari four aṅgula.