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V, 37, 1.
ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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The Årâma became offensive. ....
[The rest of this chapter is scarcely translateable. It records in like manner the various sanitary difficulties which arose from the living together of a number of Bhikkhus. Each such difficulty is quite solemnly said to have been reported to the Blessed One, and he is said to have found a way out of it. The result of the whole is, that the building of privies is enjoined, and all the contrivances, such as seats, doors, steps, plastering, &c., already mentioned with respect to the bath-room, above, V, 14, are here repeated verbatim '.]
36.
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus followed evil practices such as these—they used to plant [&c., word for word as in the long list at I, 13, 1, 2, down to the end).
They told this matter to the Blessed One. "You are not, O Bhikkhus, to follow manifold evil practices. Whosoever does so, shall be dealt with according to the law.'
37.
1. Now at the time when the venerable Kassapa of Uruvela went forth (from the world), much property in brass and wood and earthenware came into the possession of the Samgha?. And the
· For some of the details, compare Mahâvagga V, 8, 3, and Mahavagga I, 25, 19=Kullavagga VIII, 1, 5, and Kullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.
See Mahâvagga I, 20, 19–21.
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