{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20029.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20029.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20029.htm","text":"1. Now at that time at Ves\u00e2l\u00ee a regular service of sweet food had been established, the laity taking the duty in turns. The Bhikkhus, eating the sweet food, became very sick with superfluity of humors in their body 5.\nNow G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka went to Ves\u00e2l\u00ee on\nprescribe, O Bhikkhus, the use of the cloister and of the bath-room.'\n2. Now at that time the Bhikkhus walked up and down on a cloister on uneven ground; and their feet were hurt.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make it level.'\nThe cloister had too low a basement, and was inundated with water 1.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make it with a high basement.'\nThe facing of the basement fell in 2.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of facing of three kinds--brick facing, stone facing, and wooden facing.'\nThey found difficulty in getting up into it.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of stairs of three kinds--brick stairs, stone stairs, and wooden stairs.'\nAs they were going up them, they fell off.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a balustrade.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus, when walking up and down in the cloister, fell down.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to provide a railing 3 for the cloister.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus, when walking up and down in the open air, were distressed by heat and by cold.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a hall for the cloister 1,'\nStraw and plaster fell (from the walls and roof) into the cloister-hall.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to first cover over (the walls and roof with skins), and then plaster them. (And I allow the use of) whitewash, and blacking, and red colouring, and wreath-work, and creeper-work, and bone hooks, and cupboards, and bamboos to hang robes on, and strings to hang robes on.'\n3. [The whole of the above, from the basement down to the balustrade, is repeated of the hot-bath house.]\nThe bath house had no door.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a door, with door-posts and lintel 2, with hollows like a mortar (for the door to revolve in 3), with projections to\nrevolve in those hollows 1, with rings on the door for, the bolt to work along in 2, with a block of wood fixed unto the edge of the door-post and containing a cavity for the bolt to go into (called the monkey's head 3), with a pin 4 (to secure the bolt by), with a connecting bolt 5, with a key-hole 6, with a hole for the string with which the door can be closed, and with a string for that purpose 7.'\nThe lower part of the wattle and daub wall 1 of the bath-room decayed (through damp).\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to face round the lower half of the wall (with bricks 2).'\nThe bath-room had no chimney 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a chimney.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus made a fire-place in the middle of a small bath-room, and there was no room to get to (the bath).\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make the fire-place at one side of a small bath-room, and in the middle of a large one 4.'\nThe fire in the bath-room scorched their faces.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of clay to spread over your faces 5.'\nThey moistened the clay in their hands.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a trough to moisten the clay in 6.'\nThe clay had a bad smell.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to scent it.'\nThe fire in the bath-room scorched their bodies.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have water poured over you.'\nThey poured the water out of dishes and alms-bowls.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a stand for the water, and saucers 1 to pour it from.'\nA bath-room with a thatched roof did not produce perspiration.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cover the roof of the bath-room (with skins 2), and to plaster it within and without.'\nThe bath-room became swampy.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to lay the floor with flooring of three kinds--brick flooring, stone flooring, and wooden flooring.'\nIt still became swampy.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to wash the floor.'\nThe water settled on the floor.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a drain to carry off the water 3.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus sat in the bath-room on the ground, and they had pins and needles in their limbs 4.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of stools for the bath-room.'\nNow at that time the bath-room had no enclosure.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to enclose it with three kinds of enclosures--brick walls, and stone walls, and wooden fences.'\n4. There was no antechamber 1 (in which the water could be kept).\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have an antechamber.'\nThe basement of the antechamber was too low, and it was inundated with water [and so on, as in II. 6, and in the last section down to the end of the description of the door, followed by the closing words of II. 6 and of \u00a7 2 from 'straw and plaster fell, &c.,' down to 'cupboards 2'].\n5. The cell 3 became swampy.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to spread gravel 4 over it.'\nThey did not succeed in getting any 1.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to flag it with stone.'\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have a drain to it.'\n102:5 Abhisannak\u00e2y\u00e2 ti semh\u00e2di-dos\u2019-ussanna-k\u00e2y\u00e2 (B.). This word has already occurred at Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 14, 7, where Buddhaghosa's explanation is much the same. See also Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 1, 30.\nsome business or other. And on seeing the Bhikkhus very sick with superfluity of humors, he went up to where the Blessed One was; and when he had come there, he saluted the Blessed One and took his seat on one side. And when so seated he said to the Blessed One: 'The Bhikkhus, Lord are now very sick with superfluity of humors. It would be well if the Blessed One were to prescribe, Lord for the Bhikkhus the use of the cloister 1 and of the bath-room 2. Thus will the Bhikkhus become convalescent.'\nThen the Blessed One instructed, and aroused, and incited, and gladdened G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka with religious discourse. And G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka; so instructed, and incited, and aroused, and gladdened with religious discourse, arose from his seat and saluted the Blessed One, and keeping him on his right hand as he passed him, departed thence. And the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, convened an assembly of the Bhikkhu-samgha, and addressed the Bhikkhus, and said, 'I\n103:1 Ka\u1e45kama. A straight piece of ground cleared and levelled for the purpose of walking up and down upon for exercise and meditation. See our note on this word at Mah\u00e2vagga V, 1, 14.\n103:2 Gant\u00e2ghara. See our note above on Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 12. It was not ordinarily used for cold baths, which were taken in the rivers or tanks, but for a kind of hot-water bath, or perhaps steam bath, the exact mode of taking or administering which is not as yet certain. Several Bhikkhus took the bath at the same time, but it is not likely that they got into the water (though the expression uttarati is used, loc. cit., of their leaving the bath), as they scarcely would have made vessels large enough to contain a man. It rather seems that they sat on stools close to a large fire, and had water poured over them. The use of this kind of bath is forbidden to the Bhikkhun\u00ees at Kullavagga X, 27, 4.\n104:1 All the following paragraphs are the same as above, V, 11, 6, where see our notes.\n104:2 As we have pointed out above, in our note on Mah\u00e2vagga V, 1, 14, it is not probable that the Ka\u1e45kama at first had a roof and stairs and balustrade. These were later improvements.\n104:3 Vedik\u00e2. See Mah\u00e2-sudassana Sutta I, 60, and Rh. D.'s note there ('Buddhist Suttas,' p. 262), and below, VI, 2, 2.\n105:1 Ka\u1e45kamana-s\u00e2la, already referred to at Mah\u00e2vagga III, 5.\n105:2 Pittha-samgh\u00e2tam. See Childers under sa\u1e45gh\u00e2ta, and the Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 on the 19th P\u00e2kittiya. Kav\u00e2ta-pittha occurs in Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 15, and in the Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 on P\u00e2kittiya 19 (compare upari-pitthiti at Kullavagga VIII, 1, 1), and this and the two following phrases below, VI, 2, 1. Buddhaghosa has nothing on them, either here or there; and they were probably therefore in quite common use even in his day. The whole of this paragraph recurs below, VI, 3, 7.\n105:3 Udukkhalikam. Presumably the door had no hinges, but the upper and lower ends of one side projected into hollows pre-pared for them in the lintel and the threshold. This suggestion is confirmed by the connection in which these words are used at VI, 2, I.\n106:1 Uttara-p\u00e2sakam. See the last note. P\u00e2saka recurs also in the next but one. Compare aggala-p\u00e2saga in Ay\u00e2ra\u1e45ga Sutta II, 1, 5, 2.\n106:2 Aggala-vatti n\u00e2ma dv\u00e2ra-b\u00e2h\u00e2ye samappam\u00e2no yeva aggalatthambho vukkati yattha t\u00eeni katt\u00e2ri khidd\u00e2ni katv\u00e2 s\u00fbkiyo denti (B.).\n106:3 Kapi-s\u00eesakam n\u00e2ma dv\u00e2ra-b\u00e2ham vigghitva tattha pavesito aggala-p\u00e2sako vukkati (B.). The word recurs in the Mah\u00e2-parinibb\u00e2na Sutta V, 32, where it is said of \u00c2nanda that he kapis\u00eesakam \u00e2lambitv\u00e2 atth\u00e2si, just as in the Mah\u00e2-sudassana Sutta II, 24 it is said of the queen under similar circumstances that she dv\u00e2ra-b\u00e2ham \u00e2lambitv\u00e2 atth\u00e2si. Buddhaghosa's commentary on the word in the former of these two passages is given by Rh. D. in his note at p. 95 of the 'Buddhist Suttas.'\n106:4 S\u00fbkik\u00e2 ti tattha (that is, kapi-s\u00eesake) magghe khiddam katv\u00e2 pavesit\u00e2 (B.). Apparently a pin to pass through the monkey's head so as to secure the bolt in its place after it has been shot into the cavity. See the next note and below, VI, 2, I.\n106:5 Ghatik\u00e2 ti upari-yogit\u00e2 (B.). At G\u00e2taka I, 360 (compare Kullavagga IX, 1, 2), we are told of a man who dv\u00e2r\u00e2ni pidahanto sabba-dv\u00e2resu s\u00fbkighatik\u00e2dayo datv\u00e2 talam (sic, query t\u00e2lam) abhiruhitv\u00e2 tattha pi dv\u00e2ram pidahitv\u00e2 nis\u00eedi. As the principal bolt was probably called aggala (unless that were the name for the whole machinery), this was some smaller bolt. And in Kullavagga VIII, 1, I an instance is given of a man undoing the bolt (ghatikam uggh\u00e2tetv\u00e2) of an uninhabited vih\u00e2ra, such as is referred to in VI, 2, I.\n106:6 T\u00e2lakkhiddam. See the end of VI, 2, 1, and Childers under the word t\u00e2lo. Buddhaghosa says nothing. The word t\u00e2la occurs in the last note.\n106:7 \u00c2vi\u00f1khana-kkhiddam \u00e2vi\u00f1khana-raggum. These are said in VI, 2, 1 to be necessary because the door could not be put p. 107 to, and doubtless have the meaning above assigned to them. \u00c2vi\u00f1ki (or \u00e2vi\u00f1gi?) at Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga, Samgh\u00e2disesa II, 4, 9, means he drew towards himself; and \u00c2vi\u00f1kan\u00e2 (\u00e2vi\u00f1gan\u00e2?), ibid. II, 2, 2, is used as an equivalent of \u00e2kaddhan\u00e2, which is much the same thing.\n107:1 Kudda-p\u00e2do. Compare Rh. D.'s note on Mah\u00e2-parinibb\u00e2na Sutta V, 41. The phrase recurs below of Vih\u00e2ras at VI, 3, 4.\n107:2 Mandalikam k\u00e2tun ti n\u00eeka-vatthukam kinitum (B.). Kin\u00e2ti is the technical word for laying bricks one above another; the comment therefore means 'to line or face the lower part with bricks.' (Compare pokkharaniyo itthik\u00e2hi kinitum at Mah\u00e2sudassana Sutta I, 58; Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas,' p. 262, 'to face the ponds with bricks or tiles;' and on facing a well below, V, 16, 2.)\n107:3 Dh\u00fbma-nettan ti dh\u00fbma-nikkhamana-khiddam (B.). The word is used of a surgical instrument at Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 13, 2.\n107:4 A similar paragraph occurs below, VI, 3, 3, of Vih\u00e2ras.\n107:5 Mukha-mattikam. See our note 4 on Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 12.\n107:6 Mattik\u00e2-donikam. See the last words of V, 16, 2.\n108:1 Sar\u00e2vakam. See Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 12, I, and G\u00e2taka, vol. i, p. 8.\n108:2 Ogumphetv\u00e2. See above, V, II, 6, and our note there.\n108:3 Udaka-niddhamanam. See G\u00e2taka I, 175, 409, 425, 489, in which passages an entrance to, or an exit from, a palace or a city is effected respectively niddhamana-mukhena, niddhamana-dv\u00e2rena, niddhamanena, and niddhamana-maggena. Our phrase here recurs below, V, 35, 4.\n108:4 Gatt\u00e2ni kanduvanti. Gatt\u00e2ni is nominative, not accusative. Compare Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 14, 5, where kanduvati is used in the neuter sense. ('The sore was irritable!)\n109:1 Kotthako. This word means a room without a window; and it is used either of 1. 'a room over a gateway,' or 2. 'a room used as a store-room.' (Compare Mah\u00e2vagga III, 5, 6, 9; Kullavagga IV, 4, 6, 7, VI, 3, 7, 9, VI, 4, 10, IX, I, 2; and G\u00e2taka I, 179, 227, 230, II, 168.) The whole of this paragraph recurs below, V, 35, 4, of the kotthaka to a privy; and the two passages taker together show that an entrance room or passage, a porch or ante-chamber, is meant, in which the water was kept ready for use For that reason this particular kind of kotthaka is elsewhere called, in both connections, udaka-kotthaka (Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 14, 3, of the bath-room--where see Buddhaghosa's note quoted in our 'Vinaya Texts,' vol. ii, p. 57--and Dhammapada, p. 103, of the privy). Buddhaghosa explains it here by dv\u00e2ra-kotthako; and it occurs again below, VIII, 8, 2, in the same sense.\n109:2 The last two items in \u00a7 2 are supplied for this case also in the next chapter but one.\n109:3 Parivena is doubtless here, and below at VIII, 8, 2 in the same connection, a cell used as a cooling-room, after the steam bath. Buddhaghosa says nothing here, but gives a note below, V, 35, 4.\n109:4 Marumba. This word occurs-in a description of different kinds of earths in the Old Commentary on the 10th P\u00e2kittiyap. 110 (Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2kittiya X, 2, I); and in a similar connection at D\u00eepavamsa XIX, 2. Also below, V, 35, 4, VI, 3, 8.\n110:1 Na pariy\u00e2punanti. See the use of this phrase at Kullavagga V, 5, 2.","title":"SBE 20: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 14","type":"page"}