{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20063.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20063.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Sattarasa-vaggiya Bhikkhus made ready a certain large Vih\u00e2ra in the neighbourhood 3, with the intention of dwelling in it. And when the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus saw what they were doing, they said: 'These venerable ones, the Sattarasa-vaggiya Bhikkhus, are\ngetting a Vih\u00e2ra ready; come, let us turn them out.' Some of them said: 'Let us stay here 1 whilst they get it ready, and turn them out when it is prepared.' So the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus said to the Sattarasa-vaggiyas: 'Depart, Sirs; the Vih\u00e2ra has fallen unto us.'\n'Why did you not, Sirs, say so sooner; and we would have got some other one ready?'\nIs not, then, this Vih\u00e2ra the common property of the Samgha?'\nYes, Sirs; that is so.'\n'Then depart, Sirs; for the Vih\u00e2ra has fallen unto us.'\nIt is large, Sirs, this Vih\u00e2ra. You can dwell in it, and we as well.'\nThen, full of anger and displeasure, they repeated, 'Depart, Sirs; this Vih\u00e2ra has fallen unto us.' And seizing them by the throat, they cast them out. And the others, being ejected, wept.\nThe Bhikkhus asked, 'Why, Sirs, do you weep?'\nThen they told them; and the moderate Bhikkhus murmured, &c., and told the matter to the Blessed One.\n'Is it true, as they say, &c.?'\n'It is true, Lord.'\nThen he rebuked them; and when he had delivered a religious discourse, he said to the Bhikkhus:\n'A Bhikkhu is not, O Bhikkhus, to be cast out of a Vih\u00e2ra, the common property of the Samgha, in anger and vexation. Whosoever does so, shall\nbe dealt with according to the law 1. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to allot the lodging-places (common to the Samgha to those who have need of them) 2.'\n2. Now the Bhikkhus thought, 'How then shall the lodging-places be allotted?'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as an apportioner of lodging places a Bhikkhu possessed of these five qualifications--one who does not walk in partiality, who does not walk in malice, who does not walk in stupidity, who does not walk in fear (and so on, as in Khandhaka IV chapter 10, down to the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2).'\n3. Now the apportioners of lodging-places thought, 'How then ought the lodging-places to be apportioned?'\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, in the first place to count the Bhikkhus, then to count the sleeping-places, then to apportion accordingly 3.'\nWhen apportioning according to the number of sleeping-places, some remained unallotted 4.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apportion according to the number of apartments (Vih\u00e2ras):\nWhen so apportioning, some apartments(Vih\u00e2ras) remained unallotted.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to apportion according to the number of buildings (Parivenas) 1.'\nWhen so apportioning, some buildings (Parivenas) remained unallotted.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give a supplementary share to each Bhikkhu 2.'\nWhen more than one share had been allotted, another Bhikkhu arrived.\n'In that case a share need not be allotted to him, if the Bhikkhus do not wish to do so 3.'\nNow at that time they allotted sleeping-places to a Bhikkhu who was then staying outside the boundary (of the district in which the building was situate) 4.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to [do so]. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus, after the lodging-places had been allotted, kept them to the exclusion of others for all time.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you to retain them for the three months of the rainy, but not for the dry season.'\n4. Then the Bhikkhus thought, 'What is (it now that constitutes) an allotment of lodging-places?'\n'There are these three allotments of lodging-places, O Bhikkhus,--the earlier, the later, and the intermediate. The earlier is to be held on the day after the full moon of \u00c2s\u00e2lha (June-July); the later, a month after that full moon 1; the intermediate (literally that which involves a giving up during the intervening time) is held on the day after the Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 ceremony, with reference to the rainy season of the following year. These, O Bhikkhus, are the three allotments of lodging-places.'\n________________________\nHere ends the Second Portion for Recitation.\n200:2 The story in this section forms also the introductory story to the 17th P\u00e2kittiya.\n200:3 Pakkantimam; perhaps 'in the border-country.' Compare pakkantam nagaram, a frontier fort at Dhammapada, p. 56.\n201:1 \u00c2gametha y\u00e2va. Compare the introductory story to the 46th P\u00e2kittiya.\n202:1 That is, under the 17th P\u00e2kittiya.\n202:2 Sen\u00e2sanam g\u00e2hetum. Buddhaghosa has nothing on this idiom, but its meaning is sufficiently clear from the connection.\n202:3 Seyyaggena g\u00e2hetum. Buddhaghosa has no special explanation of agga here, but in his explanation of the passage says that this is to be so done that each Bhikkhu receives room for a couch (ma\u00f1katthanam). Agga must here be agra, to which B\u00f6htlingk-Roth give, from Indian lexicographers, the subsidiary meaning of 'multitude.' So below in XII, 1, 1, the Vaggiputtakas divide money amongst themselves bhikkhu-aggena, 'according to the number of the Bhikkhus.' Seyy\u00e2 is here used in the same meaning as that in which sen\u00e2sana is used throughout the rest of this chapter and the next. See VIII, 1, 4.\n202:4 Uss\u00e2diyimsu. Buddhaghosa says uss\u00e2rayims\u00fb ti ma\u00f1katth\u00e2n\u00e2ni p. 203 atirek\u00e2ni ahesum. His reading is in a copy of his work in Burmese characters, and is supported, both here and in P\u00e2kittiya XLVI, 2, where the word recurs, by a Burmese copy of the text. The Sinhalese reading is the correct one, but one may compare the idiom ganam, or parisam, uss\u00e2reti at Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 1, 22, and G\u00e2taka I, 419, 434. So at IX, I, 3, 4, the reading uss\u00e2reti given in the text is corrected at p. 363 into uss\u00e2deti, in accordance with the reading of the Sinhalese MS.\n203:1 The relation of the Vih\u00e2ra to the Parivena is here curious. In the later language parivena means 'cells.' Here it evidently includes several vih\u00e2ras.\n203:2 Anubh\u00e2gan ti puna aparam pi bh\u00e2gam d\u00e2tum (B.).\n203:3 Na ak\u00e2m\u00e2 is used here in a sense precisely parallel to that in which it occurs at Mah\u00e2vagga VII, 24, 4. See the passages quoted in our note there.\n203:4 Niss\u00eeme thitassa. See on this phrase above, Mah\u00e2vagga VII, I, 5, and VIII, 2, 3. It is repeated below, VI, 17, 2.\n204:1 These first two dates are the days on which the earlier and the later Vassa begins. See Mah\u00e2vagga III, 2.","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 11","type":"page"}