{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20047.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20047.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20047.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus set the woods on fire.\nPeople murmured, &c., saying, 'Like the charcoal burners.'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to set woods on fire. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time the Vih\u00e2ras were hidden under masses of grass 1, and when the woods were set on fire the Vih\u00e2ras were burnt. The Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not make a counter-fire for their own protection.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus. when the woods are\non fire to make a counter-fire 1, and thus afford yourselves protection.'\n2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus climbed up trees, and jumped from tree to tree.\nPeople murmured, &c., saying, 'Like monkeys.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to climb up trees. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time, when a certain Bhikkhu in the Kosala country was going to S\u00e2vatthi, an elephant pursued him on the way. And that Bhikkhu, when he had run up to the foot of a tree, fearing to offend, did not climb up. The elephant passed on another way.\nThat Bhikkhu, on arriving at S\u00e2vatthi, told this matter to the Bhikkhus (and the Bhikkhus told this matter to the Blessed One 2).\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, when there shall be something to be done to ascend a tree to the height of a man; and in cases of misfortune as high as you like.'\n148:1 Tina-gahan\u00e2. Not covered with thatch, the word for which is tina-kkhadana. See V, 11, 6; V, 14, 3, &c.\n149:1 Pataggim d\u00e2tum. See the story at G\u00e2taka I, 212, and foll.\n149:2 Omitted in the text.","title":"SBE 20: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 32","type":"page"}