{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17003.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17003.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing slippers all of a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour 2. People were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, '(These act) like those who still enjoy the pleasures of the world 3.' The brethren told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'Do not wear, O Bhikkhus, shoes that are all of\na blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes with edges of a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour.\nPeople were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'These act like those who still enjoy the pleasures of the world.' The brethren told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'Do not wear, O Bhikkhus, shoes that have edges of a blue, yellow, red, brown, black, orange, or yellowish colour. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n3. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes with heel-coverings (? 1); mocassins 2; laced boots 3; boots lined with cotton 4; boots of various hues, like the wings of partridges 5; boots pointed with rams' horns, and with goats' horns 6; ornamented with scorpions'\ntails 1; sewn round with peacocks' feathers 2; or shoes of all kinds of colours 3.\nPeople were annoyed (&c., as in \u00a7 2, down to:) told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'Do not wear, O Bhikkhus, shoes with heel-coverings (&c., as in \u00a7 3, down to:) shoes of all kinds of colours. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n4. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus were in the habit of wearing shoes adorned with lion-skins 4, tiger-skins, panther-skins, antelope-skins, otter-skins 5, cat-skins, squirrel-skins, and owl-skins 6.\nPeople were annoyed (&c., as in \u00a7 3, down to the end, substituting 'shoes adorned with lion-skins, &c.,' for 'shoes with heel-coverings, &c.')\n14:2 N\u00eelik\u00e2 umm\u00e2ra-puppha-vann\u00e2 hoti; p\u00eetik\u00e2 kanik\u00e2ra-puppha-vann\u00e2; lohitik\u00e2 gayasumana-puppha-vann\u00e2; ma\u00f1getthik\u00e2 ma\u00f1getthi-vann\u00e2 eva; kanh\u00e2 at\u00e2ritthaka-vann\u00e2; mah\u00e2ra\u1e45garatt\u00e2 satapada-pitthi-vann\u00e2 (Mah\u00e2ragana is saffron; the colour of the back of a centipede is brownish yellow), mah\u00e2n\u00e2maratt\u00e2 sambhinna-vann\u00e2 hoti pandu-pal\u00e2sa-vann\u00e2, Kurundiyam pana paduma-puppha-vann\u00e2 \u2019ti vuttam (B.).\n14:3 Read gihik\u00e2mabhogino (as corrected at vol. ii. p. 363).\n15:1 All the names of boots or shoes are of doubtful meaning; and as the use of every sort of foot-covering has long been given up among those Buddhists who have preserved the use of the P\u00e2li language, Buddhaghosa's explanations are not very reliable. He says here: Khallaka-baddh\u00e2 \u2019ti panhi-pidh\u00e2nattham tale khallakam bandhitv\u00e2 kat\u00e2.\n15:2 Putabaddh\u00e2 \u2019ti Yonaka-up\u00e2han\u00e2 vukkati, y\u00e2va ga\u1e45ghato sabbap\u00e2dam patikkh\u00e2deti.\n15:3 P\u00e2ligunthim\u00e2 \u2019ti paligunthitv\u00e2 kat\u00e2 upari-p\u00e2da-mattam eva patikkh\u00e2deti na ga\u1e45gham.\n15:4 T\u00fblapunnik\u00e2 \u2019ti t\u00fblapunn\u00e2 p\u00fbretv\u00e2 kat\u00e2.\n15:5 Tittirapattik\u00e2 \u2019ti tittira-patta-sadisa-vikitra-baddh\u00e2.\n15:6 Menda-vis\u00e2na-baddhik\u00e2 \u2019ti kannika-tth\u00e2ne mendaka-si\u1e45ga-santh\u00e2ne vaddhe yogetv\u00e2 kat\u00e2. Aga-vis\u00e2na-vaddhik\u00e2disu pi es\u2019 eva nayo.\n16:1 Vikkhik\u00e2lik\u00e2 \u2019ti tatth\u2019 eva vikkhika-nanguttha-santhane vaddhe yogetv\u00e2 kat\u00e2.\n16:2 Morapi\u00f1khaparisibbit\u00e2 (sic) \u2019ti talesu v\u00e2 baddhesu v\u00e2 moravi\u00f1khehi (sic) suttakasadisehi parisibbit\u00e2.\n16:3 Kitr\u00e2 \u2019ti vikitr\u00e2.\n16:4 S\u00eeha-kamma-parikkhat\u00e2 n\u00e2ma pariyantesu, k\u00eevaresu anuv\u00e2tam viya s\u00eehakammam yogetv\u00e2 kat\u00e2.\n16:5 Udda, an animal, feeding on fish; but Childers thinks it is not an amphibious creature, and therefore not 'otter.'\n16:6 L\u00fbka-kamma-parikkhat\u00e2 (sic) \u2019ti pakkha-bil\u00e2la-kamma-parikkhat\u00e2. The latter is the flying fox, a large kind of bat.","title":"SBE 17: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 2","type":"page"}