{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20118.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20118.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20118.htm","text":"1. Now at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees, fearing to offend, would not let men salute them, or cut their hair or nails, or dress their wounds.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow them, O Bhikkhus, to permit those things.'\n2. Now at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees, when sitting on a divan, allowed (other people thereon) to touch them with their heels.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to sit on a divan 1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time a certain Bhikkhun\u00ee was sick, and without using a divan she could not be at ease.\n'I allow Bhikkhun\u00ees, O Bhikkhus, to use a half-divan 2.'\n3. [Rule as to construction of privies 3.]\n4. Now at that time the Bhikkhun\u00ees used chunam at their baths.\nPeople murmured, saying, 'As the women in the world do!'\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to use chunam at her bath. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of clay and the red powder of rice husks 4.'\n[Similar paragraph, ending]\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to use scented clay at her bath 1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of common clay.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees bathing together in the steam-bath room made a tumult.\n'Bhikkhun\u00ees are not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe in a steam-bath. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees bathing against the stream allowed the rush of water against them.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe against the stream. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees bathed in a place not a common bathing-place, and men of abandoned life violated them.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe at a place not a common bathing-place. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees bathed at a bathing-place used also by men. People murmured, were indignant, and complained, saying, 'As those women do who are still living in the pleasures of the world 1.'\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to bathe at a bathing-place used also by men. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, Bhikkhun\u00ees, O Bhikkhus, to bathe at a bathing-place used by women.'\n________________________\nEnd of the Third Portion for Recitation.\n=====================\nEnd of the Tenth Khandhaka, the Bhikkhun\u00ee-Khandhaka.\n367:1 Palla\u1e45kam. Compare Mah\u00e2vagga V, 10, 4, 5; Kullavagga V, 37, VI, 8, VI, 14; and the 42nd Bhikkhun\u00ee P\u00e2kittiya.\n367:2 Addha-palla\u1e45kam. Probably a cushion, which only one person could use at a time.\n367:3 Compare the Rules for the Bhikkhus, Kullavagga VIII, q, 10, which we have also left untranslated. Buddhaghosa says here, Hetth\u00e2-vivate uparikkhanne ti ettha sake k\u00fbpo khato hoti upari pana padaramattam eva sabba-dis\u00e2su pa\u00f1\u00f1\u00e2yati evar\u00fbpe pi vattati.\n367:4 Kukkusam. Buddhaghosa says here, Kukkusam mattikan p. 368 ti kundaka\u00f1 k\u2019 eva mattika\u00f1 ka. The use of these last two was allowed to Bhikkhus by Kullavagga VI, 3, I, for building purposes.\n368:1 This is apparently covered by the 88th and 89th Bhikkhun\u00ee P\u00e2kittiya.","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 27","type":"page"}