{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20055.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20055.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the sleeping-rooms of the Titthiyas were whitewashed, the floors of their rooms were coloured black, and the walls coloured with red chalk 1. Much people went to look at their sleeping-rooms.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use in your Vih\u00e2ras of whitewash, black colouring, and red colouring.'\nNow at that time the whitewash would not lie on to the rough walls.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply the husks of grain made up into little balls; and when you have thus removed the unevenness with your hands 2, to lay on the whitewash.'\nThe whitewash would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply soft clay; and when you have thus removed the unevenness with your hands 2, to lay on the whitewash.'\n(Still) the whitewash would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of slime 3 (of trees) or of paste 4.'\nNow at that time the colouring matter of red chalk would not lie on the rough walls.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply the husks of grain made up into little balls; and when you have thus removed the unevenness with your hands, to lay on the colouring matter of red chalk.'\nThe red colour would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply clay mixed with the red powder which adheres to the grain of rice under the husks 1; and when you have so taken off the unevenness with your hands to lay on the red colouring matter.'\nStill the red colouring matter would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a paste made of mustard seed 2, and of oil of beeswax 3.'\nIt lay on the wall too thickly in great drops 4.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to wipe it down with a cloth 5.'\nNow at that time the black colouring matter did not lie on the rough ground.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply husks of grain\nmade up into little balls; and when you have thus removed the unevenness with your hands, to lay on the black colouring matter.'\nThe black colouring matter would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apply clay mixed with (the excrement of) earth-worms 1; and when you have thus removed the unevenness with your hands, to lay on the black colouring matter.'\nStill the black colouring matter would not adhere.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of slime and astringent liquid 2.'\n2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus had imaginative drawings 3 painted on their Vih\u00e2ras--figures of men, and figures of women.\nPeople, when they saw them on going to visit the Vih\u00e2ras; murmured, &c., saying, 'Like those who still enjoy the pleasures of the world.'\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to have imaginative drawings painted figures of men, and figures of\nwomen. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, representations of wreaths and creepers and bone hooks and cupboards 1.'\n3. Now at that time the Vih\u00e2ras had too low a basement (&c., as in V, 11, 6 as to roofing, stairs, and balustrade).\nNow at that time the Vih\u00e2ras were crowded with people 2. The Bhikkhus were ashamed to lie down to sleep.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of curtains.'\nThey lifted up the curtains and looked in.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to put up a lath and plaster wall half the height of the Vih\u00e2ra.'\nThey looked on from over this half-wall.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make inner chambers of three kinds--chambers in shape like a palankeen 3, chambers in shape like a quart measure 4, and chambers on an upper storey 5.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus made inner chambers in the middle of small Vih\u00e2ras, and there was no room to move about in.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make the inner chambers at one side of small Vih\u00e2ras, and in the middle of large ones 1.'\n4. Now at that time the lower part of the lath and plaster wall of the Vih\u00e2ra decayed.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, buttresses of timber 2.'\nRain leaked through on to the lath and plaster wall of the Vih\u00e2ra 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a protecting arrangement 4 and cement 5.'\nNow at that time a snake fell from the roof on to the back of a certain Bhikkhu. He was terrified, and made an outcry 6. The Bhikkhus, running up, said to that Bhikkhu: 'Why, Sir, do you make an outcry?' Then that Bhikkhu told the matter to\nthe Bhikkhus, and they told the matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a ceiling-cloth.'\n5. Now at that time the Bhikkhus hung their bags at the feet of the bedsteads, and at the feet of the chairs; and they were gnawed by the mice and white ants.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, pins in the wall, and bone hooks 1.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus laid aside their robes on the bedsteads and on the chairs, and the robes were torn.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, bamboos to hang your robes on, and strings to hang your robes on 2.'\nNow at that time the Vih\u00e2ras had no verandahs, and no defences 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, verandahs 4, covered terraces 5, inner verandahs 6, and over-hanging eaves 7.'\nThe verandahs were. too public; and the Bhikkhus were ashamed to lie down in them to sleep.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, an arrangement in form of a curtain that can be drawn aside 1, or an arrangement in form of a moveable screen 2.'\n6. Now at that time the Bhikkhus, when taking their midday meal in the open air, were troubled by cold and heat.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a Service Hall.'\nThe Service Hall had too low a basement (&c., as in V, 11, 6, down to the end).\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus spread their robes out on the ground in the open air, and they became dirty.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, bamboos to hang robes on, and strings to hang robes in, in the open air.\n7. The water became warm.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a water-room and a water-shed.'\nThe water-room had too low a basement (&c., as in V, 11, 6, down to the end).\nThere were no vessels for the water.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, chank shells and saucers for the water.'\n8. Now at that time the Vih\u00e2ras had no fence round them.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to enclose them with\nramparts (P\u00e2k\u00e2ra) of three kinds--brick walls, stone walls, and wooden fences.'\nThere was no store-room 1.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a store-room.'\nThe store-room had too low a basement, and it was flooded with water.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make it with a high basement.'\nThe store-room had no door.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a door; with door-posts and lintel, with hollows like a mortar for the door to revolve in, with projections to revolve in those hollows, with rings on the door for the bolt to work along in, with a block of wood fixed into the edge of the door-post, and containing a cavity for the bolt to go into (called the Monkey's Head), with a pin to secure the bolt by, with a connecting bolt, with a key-hole, with a hole for a string with which the door may be closed, and with a string for that purpose 2.'\nGrass and plaster fell from the store-room.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus (&c., as in V, 14, 4. down to the end of V, 14, 5, as to roofing, flooring, drains, &c.).'\n9. Now at that time the Bhikkhus made fire-places here and there in the Parivena, and the Parivena was covered with the remains of the fires 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make a separate room for the fire at one side.'\nThe fire-room had too low a basement (&c., as in V, 11, 6, as to flooring, stairs, and balustrade, followed by the paragraph as to the door, and the facing, as in V, 14, 3, &c.).\n10. Now at that time the \u00c2r\u00e2mas had no fences to them, and goats and cattle injured the plantations 1.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to surround them with fencing of three kinds--bamboo fences, thorn fences, and ditches.'\nThere was no gateway (k o t l h a k a), and goats and cattle, even so, injured the plantations.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a gateway, with gates made of stakes interlaced with thorny brakes 2, with fences (across the gateway) made of the akka plant 3, with ornamental screen-work over the gateway 4, and with bars.'\n[Then the paragraphs allowing the roofing, &c., of this kotthaka as in V, 11, 6, and drains for the \u00c2r\u00e2ma, as in V, 14, 3.]\n11. Now at that time Seniya Bimbis\u00e2ra, the king of Magadha, wanted to build a p\u00e2s\u00e2da 5 (residence),\ncovered with cement and clay, for the use of the Samgha. And it occurred to the Bhikkhus, 'What kind of roof now has been allowed by the Blessed One, and what kind of roof has not been allowed?'\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, roofing of five kinds--brick roofing, stone roofing, cement roofing, straw roofing, and roofing of leaves.'\n________________________\nEnd of the First Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ra (or Portion for Recitation).\n170:1 See V, 11, 6, where all these words recur.\n170:2 P\u00e2nik\u00e2ya. Buddhaghosa says nothing.\n170:3 Ikk\u00e2sa, on which we have nothing to add to Buddhaghosa's note at p. 321 of the edition of the text. It recurs below again in this section.\n170:4 Pittha-maddan ti pittha-khalam (B.). Compare the Sanskrit mrid.\n171:1 Kundaka-mattikan ti kundaka-missaka-mattikam (B.). Compare kundaka-p\u00fbvam in the G\u00e2taka Commentary I, 423 (cakes made of flour mixed with this powder).\n171:2 S\u00e2sapa-kuttan ti s\u00e2sapa-pittham. The word has occurred already at Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 14, 5, where the reading is kutta instead of kudda given in the text here. The latter should be altered in accordance with that passage, and with Buddhaghosa here.\n171:3 Sittha-telakan ti vil\u00eena-madhu-sitthakam (B.). It is mentioned as used for hair-oil at Kullavagga V, 2, 3.\n171:4 Akkussannam hot\u00ee ti bindum bindum hutv\u00e2 titthati, says Buddhaghosa.\n171:5 Kolakena pakkuddharitum. Buddhaghosa says pakkuttharitun ti mu\u00f1kitum; but compare for the right form V, 17, 1.\n172:1 Gandu-mattikan ti gandupp\u00e2da-g\u00fbtha-mattikam (B.).\n172:2 Kas\u00e2van ti \u00e2malaka-haritak\u00e2nam kas\u00e2vam (B.). Compare Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 4.\n172:3 Patibh\u00e2na-kittam. The Bhikkhun\u00ees were forbidden by the 41st P\u00e2kittiya of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-vibha\u1e45ga to go and see such paintings. (Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga II, 298, where a picture gallery, Kitt\u00e2g\u00e2ra, belonging to King Pasenadi of Kosala, is mentioned.) We. are not quite sure of the connotation of the term, which appears to imply some reproach. Perhaps it means 'suggestive.' Figures as such were not forbidden; and remains of statues and bas reliefs erected in the Vih\u00e2ras, illustrative of every-day life, have been found in great numbers. In the introductory story to the 26th P\u00e2kittiya it certainly means 'indecent.'\n173:1 All these words occur above at V, 11, 6, and V, 14, 4. The meaning of the two last is very doubtful. Perhaps it is intended that these should occupy the space on the walls instead of any ornamentation.\n173:2 \u00c2lakamand\u00e2, literally, 'like Kuvera's city in heaven.' Buddhaghosa tells us why. \u00c2lakamand\u00e2 ti eka\u1e45gan\u00e2 manuss\u00e2bhikinn\u00e2. \u00c2kinna-yakkh\u00e2, corresponding to this last word, recurs in the standing description of \u00c2lakamand\u00e2 at Mah\u00e2-parinibb\u00e2na Sutta V, 43 = Mah\u00e2 Sudassana Sutta I, 3. The name of the city is spelt in both those passages with l not l.\n173:3 Sivik\u00e2-gabbho ti katurassa-gahbho says Buddhaghosa.\n173:4 N\u00e2lik\u00e2-gabbho ti vitth\u00e2rato dviguna-tigun-\u00e2y\u00e2mo d\u00eegha-gabbho (B.). That nalik\u00e2 is used like n\u00e2li for a bushel measure follows from a comparison of G\u00e2taka 1,124, last lines, with I, 126, line 3.\n173:5 Hammiya-gahbho ti \u00e2k\u00e2sa-tale kut\u00e2g\u00e2ra-gabbho mudanda-kkhadana-gabbho p. 174 v\u00e2 (B.). Compare our note on Mah\u00e2vagga I, 30, 4.\n174:1 There is a similar injunction at V, 14, 3, with respect to fire-places in bath-rooms.\n174:2 Kula\u1e45ka-p\u00e2dakam. See Buddhaghosa's note at p. 321 of the edition of the text. The remedy here is different from that provided in the similar case, at V, 14, 3, with respect to bath-houses.\n174:3 On the use of ovassati compare V, 16, 1, and VIII, 3, 3.\n174:4 Paritt\u00e2na-kitikan ti tassa paritt\u00e2nattham kitikam is all that Buddhaghosa says. Compare the end of \u00a7 5.\n174:5 Uddha-sudhan ti vakkhaka-gomayena ka kharik\u00e2ya ka saddhim maddita-mattikam (B.).\n174:6 Vissaram ak\u00e2si. See the note on Kullavagga VIII, I, where the whole incident is similar.\n175:1 The use of these has been already referred to at V, 9. 5.\n175:2 These have already been allowed in Kullavagga V, It, 6, and V, 14, 3. The license under the present rule extends only to their use in Vih\u00e2ras.\n175:3 Apatissaran\u00e2, which must have some special, technical, meaning unknown to us. Buddhaghosa says nothing.\n175:4 \u00c2lindo n\u00e2ma pamukham vukkati (B.). Compare Abhidh\u00e2na-ppad\u00eepik\u00e2, verse 218.\n175:5 Paghanam n\u00e2ma yam nikkhamant\u00e2 ka pavisant\u00e2 ka p\u00e2dehi hananti. Tassa vih\u00e2ra-dv\u00e2re ubhato kuttam (?) niharitv\u00e2 katapadesass\u2019 etam adhivakanam. Pagh\u00e2nan ti pi vukkati (B.).\n175:6 Pakuttan ti magghe gabbhassa samant\u00e2 pariy\u00e2g\u00e2ro vukkati. Pakutan ti pi p\u00e2tho (B.).\n175:7 Osarako ti an\u00e2lindake vih\u00e2re vamsam datv\u00e2 tato dandake p. 176 os\u00e2retv\u00e2 katam khadana-pamukham (B.). At G\u00e2taka III, 446, it is said of a dying man 'niharitv\u00e2 os\u00e2rake nipagg\u00e2pesum.'\n176:1 Samsarana-kitiko n\u00e2ma kakkala-yutto kitiko (B.). Kakkala should be compared with kakkhalik\u00e2 at VI, 2, 2, and kakkhali at VI, 19.\n176:2 Uggh\u00e2tana-kitiko, on which Buddhaghosa says nothing.\n177:1 Kotthaka. See our note above on V, J4, 4, as to the various allied meanings of this word. Perhaps 'gateway' should be chosen as the rendering here, as it clearly must be in the closely allied passage in the next section but one (\u00a7 10). As the chamber supposed always to be built over the gateway could be used as a store-room, the difference is not very essential.\n177:2 The whole as above in V, 14, 3, where see the note.\n177:3 Ukl\u00e2po. On this use of the word compare Kullavagga VIII. 1, 3.\n178:1 Uparope. Compare Uparopaka at G\u00e2taka II, 345.\n178:2 Apesiyam. See p. 321 of the edition of the text, reading of course kanthaka.\n178:3 Akkav\u00e2ta, on which Buddhaghosa says nothing. A kind of dress made from the stalks of the akka plant is mentioned in Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 28, 2.\n178:4 Tosana, which is the ornamental erection over a gateway of which such excellent examples in stone have been found at the S\u00e2nchi and Bharhut Topes.\n178:5 The exact meaning of the word P\u00e2s\u00e2da at the time when this p. 179 book was written has not yet been precisely ascertained. In later times it meant a building of several storeys, each successive storey being smaller in superficial area than the one immediately beneath it. Compare the Mah\u00e2-loha-p\u00e2s\u00e2da so often mentioned in the Mah\u00e2vamsa (pp. 161-257), the stone pillars of the lowest stories of which are still one of the sights of Anur\u00e2dhapura.","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 3","type":"page"}