{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17010.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17010.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17010.htm","text":"1. Now when the Blessed One had remained at Bhaddiya as long as he thought fit, he set out on a journey towards S\u00e2vatthi. And walking from place to place he arrived at S\u00e2vatthi. There the Blessed One dwelt at S\u00e2vatthi at the Getavana, An\u00e2tha-pindika's Grove.\n2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to catch hold of the heifers crossing on the Akiravat\u00ee River by their horns, or ears, or dewlaps, or tails 4, or spring up upon their backs, or touch with lustful\nthoughts their privy parts: and they used to duck the young calves and so kill them. People were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'How can the Sakyaputtiya Samanas [act thus]? it is like men still enjoying the pleasures of the world.'\nAnd Bhikkhus heard them murmuring in annoyance and indignation: and those Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'Is it true' (&c., see chap. 4. 2)?\n'It is true, Lord.'\nHe rebuked them, and having delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:\n'Heifers are not to be caught hold of, O Bhikkhus, by their horns, or their ears, or their dewlaps, or their tails. You are not to get up on their backs. Whosoever gets up on their backs, is guilty of a dukkata offence. And their privy parts, O Bhikkhus, are not to be touched with lustful thoughts. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a thullakkaya offence. And calves ought not to be killed. Whosoever kills them, let him be dealt with according to law 1.'\n3. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to have themselves carried in vehicles to which cows were yoked with a bull between them, or bulls were yoked with a cow between them 2. People were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'That is as is done at the Feast of the Ga\u1e45g\u00e2 and the Mah\u00ee 3.'\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'Do not have yourselves carried in vehicles, O Bhikkhus. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n24:4 On khepp\u00e2, compare Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga I, 6; and B\u00f6htlingk-Roth under sepa and parukkhepa.\n25:1 See the 61st P\u00e2kittiya Rule.\n25:2 Buddhaghosa explains this passage in a different way: Itthi-yutten\u00e2 \u2019ti dhenu-yuttena. Purisantaren\u00e2 \u2019ti purisa-s\u00e2rathin\u00e2. Purisa-yutten\u00e2 \u2019ti gona-yuttena. Itthantaren\u00e2 \u2019ti itthi-s\u00e2rathin\u00e2.\n25:3 Ga\u1e45g\u00e2-mahiy\u00e2y\u00e2 \u2019ti Ga\u1e45g\u00e2-mah\u00ee-kilik\u00e2ya (B.). It is possible That Mah\u00ee may here mean the Earth; but it is probably the p. 26 well-known affluent of the Ganges, which is one of the Mah\u00e2nad\u00ees. Compare Kullavagga IX, 1, 3, Spence Hardy's 'Manual,' p. 17, and the Dhaniya Sutta in the Sutta Nip\u00e2ta.","title":"SBE 17: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 9","type":"page"}