{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20044.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20044.htm","text":"1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu entered the village for alms without a girdle on, and in the highway 1 his waist-cloth fell down 2. The people made an outcry, and that Bhikkhu was abashed.\nOn his return to the \u00c2r\u00e2ma, that Bhikkhu told this matter to the Bhikkhus, and the Bhikkhus told it to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to enter the village without a girdle on. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, a girdle 3.'\n2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear special girdles 4--those made of many strings plaited\ntogether 1, those made like the head of a water-snake 2, girdles with tambourines on them 3, girdles with beads on (or with ornaments hanging from them) 4. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, girdles of two kinds--those made of strips of cloth, and those . . . . 5'\nThe borders of the girdles decayed through age.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, an edging of brighter material 6 and strengthening at the ends 7.'\nThe end of the girdle where the knot was tied decayed through age 8.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a buckle 9.'\n[A paragraph on the substances of which it may be made, as usual, see Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 12, 3; Kullavagga V, 5, 2, &c.,\nadding at the end 'and made of string.']\n3. Now at the time the venerable \u00c2nanda went into the village for alms with light garments on 1 and his garments were blown up by a whirlwind.\nThe venerable \u00c2nanda, on returning to the \u00c2r\u00e2ma, told this matter to the Bhikkhus; and the Bhikkhus told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a block 2 (to be used as a weight) or a chain 3.'\n[Similar paragraph to that just above as to the substances of which the block may be made.]\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus fastened the block or the chain immediately on to their robes; and the robes gave way.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a piece of phalaka cloth 4to attach the block or the chain to.'\nThey fastened the phalaka cloth for the block or the chain on to the edge of the robe; and the corner came open 5.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to fasten the phalaka cloth for the block on the edge of the robe, and to fasten the phalaka cloth for the chain seven or eight finger-breadths up the robe.'\n4. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your under garments arranged as laymen do, nor arranged with appendages like elephant-trunks 1, nor arranged like fishing-nets 2, nor arranged with four corners showing 3, nor arranged like flower-stands 4, nor arranged like rows of jewelry 5. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.\n[Similar paragraph, ending]\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your upper 6\ngarments as the laymen do. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\n5. [Similar paragraph, ending]\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear your under garments 1 as the king's porters do 1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\n142:1 Rathiy\u00e2ya. The Old Commentary on the Bhikkhun\u00ee., vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2kittiya XIV, says, Rathiy\u00e2 ti rakkh\u00e2. The word recurs, ibid., P\u00e2kittiya LXXXVI, XCVI (the last of which is nearly the same as our passage here). For the more usual form rathik\u00e2, see Kullavagga X, 12.\n142:2 Pabhassittha. Compare Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2kittiya LXXXIII, 1, 2. It is from the root bhrams, not bh\u00e2s.\n142:3 The use of this has already been enjoined at Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 9, 10. It was to be tied on round the waist, over the waist-cloth, to keep it in its place.\n142:4 It is curious that kati-suttakam, a kind of girdle which would seem properly to belong here, has been included in a former list of forbidden articles at V, 2, I.\n143:1 Kal\u00e2bukam. See Buddhaghosa's note at p. 3'9 of the text, and compare B\u00f6htlingk-Roth under kal\u00e2pa, kal\u00e2paka.\n143:2 Deddubhakam n\u00e2ma udaka-sappi-s\u00eesa-sadisam (B.). Deddubha corresponds to the later Sanskrit dundubha, an older form of which is dundubha.\n143:3 Muraga, literally, 'tambourines;' but see Buddhaghosa's note, loc. cit.\n143:4 Maddav\u00eenam n\u00e2ma p\u00e2ma\u1e45ga-santh\u00e2nam (B.). On p\u00e2ma\u1e45ga, see our note at Kullavagga V, 2, I.\n143:5 S\u00fbkarantakam. See Buddhaghosa's note at p. 319 of the text. We do not venture to translate the term.\n143:6 Sobhanam n\u00e2ma vetthetv\u00e2 mukha-vatti-sibhanam (B.). In the Magghima S\u00eela, \u00a7 3, sobhanakam or sobh.ana-karanam (so Rh. D.'s MS.) is a kind of game or show.\n143:7 Gunakam n\u00e2ma mudika(?muddhika)-santh\u00e2nena sibbanam (B.). Clough, under guna, gives inter alia, 1. fastening; 2. a plant of the fibres of which bow-strings are made; 3. bow-string.\n143:8 Pavananto ti p\u00e2santo (B.).\n143:9 Vidho. But both the reading and the explanation are uncertain, and Buddhaghosa says nothing. The word occurs also, and apparently in the same sense, in the Old Commentary on the 86th P\u00e2kittiya.\n144:1 Samgh\u00e2tiyo in the plural must mean garments and not waist-cloths only. See the parallel passage in the Bhikkhun\u00ee-vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2kittiya XCVI.\n144:2 Ganthikam. The use of this article is referred to in VIII, 4, 3, and at Dhammapada, p. 372. That ganthi means a block, usually of mood, is clear from the use of dhamma-ganthikam at G\u00e2taka I, 150 (spelt gandika however at II, 124), compared with ganthi (block of sandal-wood) above, V, 8, I. The word occurs also in the Old Commentary on the 86th P\u00e2kittiya.\n144:3 P\u00e2sakam, which does not correspond to Sanskrit pr\u00e2saka here, but to p\u00e2saka = p\u00e2sa (B\u00f6htlingk-Roth. give inter alia, 'Sahl oder Leiste am Anfange eines Gewebes'). Compare p\u00e2santa in Buddhaghosa on makkhav\u00e2lakam in the next section.\n144:4 See our note on this word at Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 28, 2.\n144:5 That is, perhaps, the weight dragged the robe to one side and the legs were visible through the opening.\n145:1 Hatthi-sondakam n\u00e2ma n\u00e2bhi-m\u00fblato hatthi-sonda-santh\u00e2nam olambakam katv\u00e2 nivattham, kolika-itth\u00eenam niv\u00e2sanam viya (B.).\n145:2 Makkha-v\u00e2lakam n\u00e2ma ekato dasantam ekato p\u00e2santam olambitv\u00e2 nivattham (B.).\n145:3 Katu-kannakam upari dve hetthato dve evam katt\u00e2ro kanne dassetv\u00e2 nivattham (B.).\n145:4 T\u00e2la-vantakam n\u00e2ma t\u00e2lavant\u2019-\u00e2k\u00e2rena s\u00e2takam olambitv\u00e2 niv\u00e2sanam (B.). See our note on t\u00e2lavanta above, V, 22, 2, and on \u00e2malaka-vantika-p\u00eetham below, VI, 2, 4.\n145:5 Sata-vallikam n\u00e2ma d\u00eegha-s\u00e2takam aneka-kkhattum obhai\u00f1gitv\u00e2 ovattikam karontena nivattham v\u00e2, padakkhina-passesu v\u00e2 nirantaram valiyo dassetv\u00e2 nivattham. Sake pana g\u00e2nuto patth\u00e2ya eko v\u00e2 dve v\u00e2 valiyo pa\u00f1\u00f1\u00e2yanti, vattati (B.). Compare vallik\u00e2 and ovattikam at V, 2, I. Buddhaghosa's second explanation would be possible if the reading were sata-valikam, and is probably only a pis aller, due to the difficulty of the first, which we have adopted doubtfully.\n145:6 P\u00e2rupati as opposed to niv\u00e2seti above. Compare Dhammapada, pp. 154, 376; G\u00e2taka, vol. i, p. 57, line 16.\n146:1 Samvelliyam niv\u00e2setabbam See Buddhaghosa's note at p. 319 of the text.","title":"SBE 20: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 29","type":"page"}