Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 137,074 words
The Cullavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils as well as the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns. The Cullavagga also elaborates on the etiquette and duties of Bhikkhus....
Cullavagga, Khandaka 2, Chapter 3
1. Now at that time, since there was a great company of the Bhikkhus gathered together at Sāvatthi, those Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation did not know how to carry out their probation correctly.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to carry out your probation correctly. Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to postpone[2] the probation. The Bhikkhu who has been placed on probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: "I postpone my probation." Then the probation is postponed. Or he is to say: "I postpone the duties (i.e. of a probationer)." Then also the probation is postponed.'
2. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were at Sāvatthi went away hither and thither, and the Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation were not able to carry out their probation correctly[3].
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to take upon yourselves again the probation (which had been postponed). Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to take it upon yourselves again. The Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: "I take my probation again upon myself." Then the probation is resumed. Or he is to say: "I take the duties (i.e. of a probationer) upon myself again." Then also is the probation resumed.'
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Here end the duties encumbent on a probationer.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
This chapter is repeated below, chap. 8, in reference to Bhikkhus undergoing the Mānatta discipline.
[2]:
That is, if it should be impossible during the time immediately succeeding the imposition of probation to fulfil all the thereto necessary duties, then a Bhikkhu might postpone the fulfilment to some more convenient season.
[3]:
The Samanta Pāsādikā here says, Evaṃ vattaṃ samādiyitvā parivutta-parivāsassa mānattaṃ gaṇhato puna vatta-samādāna-kiccam n’ atthi samādinna-vatto yeva hi esa. Tasmāssa chārattaṃ mānattaṃ dātabbaṃ, cinna-mānatto abbhetabbo, evaṃ anāpattiko hutvā suddhante patiṭṭhito tisso sikkhā pūretvā dukkhass’ antaṃ karissatīti.