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 3

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3.

'A Bhikkhu, after the Kaṭhina ceremony has been held, takes with him a robe ready for wear, and goes away, &c.[1]'

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End of the section entitled Samādāya-sattaka[2].

Footnotes

160:1 This chapter is word for word identical with chap. 2: only instead of 'takes' (ādāya) read 'takes with him' (samādāya). We cannot say what different meaning these two words are intended to convey.

160:2 That is, 'the seven cases in which he takes a robe with him.'

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Footnotes and references:

[1]:

This chapter is word for word identical with chap. 2: only instead of 'takes' (ādāya) read 'takes with him' (samādāya). We cannot say what different meaning these two words are intended to convey.

[2]:

That is, 'the seven cases in which he takes a robe with him.'

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