{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20068.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20068.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20068.htm","text":"1. Now when the Blessed One had dwelt at S\u00e2vatthi as long as he thought fit, he went on on his journey towards the Kit\u00e2 Hill with a great multitude of Bhikkhus--to wit, with about five hundred Bhikkhus, besides S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na.\nAnd the Bhikkhus who were followers of Assagi and Punabbasu 1 hearing the news, said one to another, 'Come, Sirs; let us divide all the sleeping accommodation belonging to the Samgha. S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na are men of sinful desires, and are under the influence of sinful desires. We will not provide sleeping-places for them.' And they did so.\nNow the Blessed One, proceeding on his journey, arrived at the Kit\u00e2 Hill. And he addressed a number of Bhikkhus, saying, 'Do you go, O Bhikkhus, to the followers of Assagi and Punabbasu, and say: \"The Blessed One, Sirs, has arrived with a large number of Bhikkhus--to wit, with about five hundred Bhikkhus, besides S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na. Make ready sleeping-places, Sirs, for the Blessed One, and for the Bhikkhu-samgha, and for S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na.\"'\n'Even so, Lord,' said those Bhikkhus in assent to the Blessed One and they did so.\n'There is no sleeping accommodation belonging to the Samgha. We have divided it all' (was the reply). 'The Blessed One, Sirs, is welcome: and he may stay in whatever Vih\u00e2ra he chooses. But S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na are men of sinful desires, and under the influence thereof; for them we will provide no sleeping-places.'\n2. 'What then, Sirs? Have you divided sleeping accommodation that is the property of the Samgha?'\n'That is so, Sirs.'\nThe moderate Bhikkhus murmured, &c. (down to) The Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus:\n'These five things, O Bhikkhus, are unapportionable, and are not to be divided either by the Samgha, or by a Gana, or by an individual. If divided, the division is void; and whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a thullakkaya. And what are the five (&c., as in V I, 15, 2) 1?'\n211:1 On these Bhikkhus and their relations with S\u00e2riputta and Moggall\u00e2na, see above, Kullavagga I, 13-16.\n212:1 These expressions 'untransferable' (avissaggiy\u00e2ni) and 'unapportionable' (avebha\u1e45giy\u00e2ni) have already occurred above at Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 27, 5.","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 16","type":"page"}