{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20073.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20073.htm","text":"1. Now when the Blessed One had remained at \u00c2lav\u00ee as long as he thought fit, he set out on his journey towards R\u00e2gagaha. And proceeding straight on, he arrived in due course at R\u00e2gagaha. And there, at R\u00e2gagaha, the Blessed One stayed at the Veluvana in the Kalandaka Niv\u00e2pa.\nNow at that time there was a scarcity of food at R\u00e2gagaha 1. The people were unable to provide food for the (whole) Samgha and they were desirous of providing food 2 (to be sent to the Vih\u00e2ra) for the use of a special Bhikkhu (designated by the donor) 3 or for special Bhikkhus invited (by the donor in his own house) 4 or for (single Bhikkhus) appointed by ticket (issued by the Samgha) 5, or of providing food during a fortnight 6, or on Uposatha\ndays (that is, on the last days of each fortnight) or on the first days of each fortnight.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, each of three ways of obtaining food.'\nNow at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus having received good food for themselves, gave over the worse food (which they had also received) to the other Bhikkhus.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as apportioner of rations 1 a Bhikkhu who is possessed of the following five qualifications--(&c., as in IV, 9, down to the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2):\nNow the Bhikkhus who were apportioners of rations, thought: 'How then are the rations to be apportioned?'\n'I allow you. O Bhikkhus, to apportion them by arranging the food in small heaps, and fastening tickets or marks upon them 2.'\n2. Now at that time the Samgha had no distributor\nof lodging-places--no overseer of stores--no receiver of robes--no distributor of robes, of congey, or of fruits--and no distributor of dry foods, and through not being distributed it went bad.\nThey told each of these matters 1 to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as distributor of lodging-places, &c., a Bhikkhu who has (&c., as in \u00a7 1, down to the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2, inserting throughout the appropriate variations in the fifth qualification).\n3. Now at that time articles of trifling value had accumulated in the storehouse of the Samgha.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as disposer of trifles a Bhikkhu who has (&c., as before, down to the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2). Each separate needle, and pair of scissors, and pair of sandals, and girdle, and pair of braces, and filtering cloth, and regulation strainer 2, and plait 3, and half-plait 3, and gusset 3, and half-gusset 3, and binding 4, and braiding 4, is to be given away. If the Samgha has any ghee, or oil, or honey, or molasses, he is to give it away for personal consumption only, and if it be wanted, he is to give it a second and a third time 5.'\nNow at that time the Samgha had no receiver of under-garments 1, or of bowls,--no superintendent of those who kept the grounds in order (the \u00c2r\u00e2mikas), and the \u00c2r\u00e2mikas not being looked after, the necessary work was not done,--no superintendent of s\u00e2maneras, and the s\u00e2maneras not being looked after did not perform their duties.\nThey told each of these matters to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to appoint as receiver of under-garments, &c., a Bhikkhu who has (&c., as before, down to the end of the Kammav\u00e2k\u00e2).'\n=====================\nEnd of the Sixth Khandhaka, on Sleeping Arrangements, &c,\n220:1 Other special rules for times of scarcity will be found at Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 17, 7; 18, 4; 19, 2; 20, 4 (repealed for times of plenty in VI, 32). Compare also P\u00e2r\u00e2gika IV, 1, 1.\n220:2 The above modes of receiving food (instead of collecting in a bowl morsels of food given in alms) are the dispensations allowed by Mah\u00e2vagga I, 30, 4.\n220:3 Uddesa-bhattam k\u00e2tum. Compare the story of Upananda at Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 19, I.\n220:4 Nimantanam k\u00e2tum. The word is only used in this special technical sense. Compare the whole story of Kulla-panthaka at G\u00e2taka I, 116, and especially the last line.\n220:5 Sal\u00e2ka-bhattam k\u00e2tum. See especially above, Kullavagga IV, 9; IV, to.\n220:6 Pakkhikam k\u00e2tum. Both Childers sub voce and Frankfurter p. 221 ('Pali Handbook,' p. 165), in interpreting the passage at Mah\u00e2vagga I, 30, 4, take this to mean a feast given on the eighth day of the month. But paksha is the half-month. The expression much more probably means, therefore, to provide food either during the whole of a half-month for one or more specially invited Bhikkhus, or for a larger number on any one day of the half-month to be chosen by the Samgha.\n221:1 Compare above, Kullavagga IV, 4, 1.\n221:2 Buddhaghosa says, Sal\u00e2k\u00e2ya v\u00e2 patik\u00e2ya v\u00e2 upanibandhitv\u00e2 opu\u00f1khitv\u00e2 uddisitun ti vakanato rukkhas\u00e2ramay\u00e2ya sal\u00e2k\u00e2ya v\u00e2 veluvilivat\u00e2lapann\u00e2dinay\u00e2ya patik\u00e2ya v\u00e2 asukassa n\u00e2ma sal\u00e2kabhattan ti evam akkhar\u00e2ni upanibandhitv\u00e2 pakkhiyam v\u00e2 k\u00eevarabhoge v\u00e2 katv\u00e2 sabb\u00e2 sal\u00e2k\u00e2yo omu\u00f1khitv\u00e2 [sic] punappunam hetth\u00e2-vasena \u00e2loletv\u00e2 . . . d\u00e2tabb\u00e2.\n222:1 There is another officer (\u00e2sana-pa\u00f1\u00f1\u00e2paka) mentioned at Kullavagga XII, 2, 7, whose omission from the list here is worthy of notice.\n222:2 Dhamma-karako. See V, 13, I.\n222:3 On these words, see Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 12, 2.\n222:4 On these two words, see Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 1, 5.\n222:5 These things were to be used only as medicines, according to Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 1, 1-5, where butter is also added. That would be under the charge of the distributor of dry foods (\u00a7 2), as if kept it would go bad. According to VI, 15, 10, none of these five p. 222 kinds of medicine were to be kept for a period exceeding seven days, but that was a rule that was not very probable to be strictly followed.\n223:1 S\u00e2tiya; no doubt the same as is spelt elsewhere s\u00e2tik\u00e2 or s\u00e2tak\u00e2, and is used for such purposes as bathing in.","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 21","type":"page"}