By Sukumar Dutt
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On seeing his condItIon, a layman took off bIB shoes, which had many linmgs, and, approachmg him, asked (Mahiivagga, 3, 1-2) : " Why does your reverence hmp � " .. " .. Enough, good frIend 1 shoes With many lmmgs have been forbIdden by the Blessed One " (v�de rule 1). On hearmg tills conversation, Buddha called upon the BhIkkhu to accept the shoes and, havmg delIvered a re hgIOUS dIscourse, laId down the above rule (No. VI) for the Bhlkkhus. The rule 1B properly an adjudication, a pro nouncement on certain facts prescrIbmg a single act, ViZ.
Agam, the rule sometIme'! tances of thI,! may be CIted SometImes the lllventive gemus of the author seems to faIl hIm, and on the baSIS of very slender, featureless, and commonplace stones whole manuals of conduct are gIven, as In i and v. MalliLvagga, Vlll, Lastly, we hght upon stones whICh are the barest and the most commonplace pOSSIble, the narratIve tendIng to the IrredUCIble mImmum, as In Oullava,qga, v, 6, where the rule does not arIse out of the story at all (whICh IS sImply th18, that a BhIkl�hu WM bItten by a snake), and IS gIven only to mtroduce a recIfe for snake-bite.
A notlllllg It IS only an aLter-thought to bUppJy a reason for an already eXlBtmg practICe. D See Deussen's The Upan'BhadB, p 382. ctuBlly)old me l\ hcn I " 9 9 about to Balute them. They could Cite no authOrity for thlB reabon for refuBlDg & BalUte. CmSM 38 (iI) The common, pnmitIve form m whIch all the rules are cast. (iii) The place of any rule m questIOn m the order of evolutIOn of monastICIsm among the BhIkkhus. (iv) The value of the story m relatlOn to the rule whIch 18 ostenSIbly based upon It Unless we are prepared to take mto consIderation all these pomts, we cannot presume to understand m theIr true lIght and bearing the laws of VinayapIt a k a • Through an madequate appreCIatlOn of the compleXIties of the problem, even many learned wrIters on BuddhIsm have been betrayed mto fathenng on the hIStoric Buddha rules and regulations of Ius Order for whICh he could not pOSSIbly have been responsIble.