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Mv I 39
PTS: Mv I 52 | CS: vin.mv.01.39
Āhundarikavatthu
The Case of Crowding
by
Ven. Khematto Bhikkhu
Alternate translations/layout: 'line by line' Pāḷi - English

(Mv.I.53.1) [115] Now at that time the Blessed One stayed near Rājagaha for the Rains, and also for the cold season and the hot season. People criticized and complained and spread it about,

“The districts are crowded with Sakyan-son contemplatives — dark with them. The countryside is not brightened by them.“

The monks heard the people criticizing and complaining and spreading it about. Then the monks reported the matter to the Blessed One.

(Mv.I.53.2) Then the Blessed One addressed Ven. Ānanda: “Go Ānanda, taking the key, announce to the monks in the courtyards: ‘Friends, the Blessed One wants to go out on a walking tour to Dakkhiṇāgiri. May whoever wants to come along.’”

Responding, “As you say,” to the Blessed One, taking the key, Ven. Ānanda announced to the monks in the surrounding area(s): “Friends, the Blessed One wants to set out on a walking tour to Dakkhiṇāgiri. May whoever wants to come along.”

(Mv.I.53.3) The monks said to him, “Friend, it has be laid down by the Blessed One to live in dependence for ten rains, and for dependence to be given by one with ten rains.

“In the event that we went, dependence would have to be taken, the stay would be short, we would come back again, and then dependence would have to be taken again.

“If our teachers and preceptors go, we will go too. If they don’t go, we won’t go.

“Friend Ānanda, (if we went) we would appear fickle.”

So the Blessed One set out on a walking tour toward Dakkhiṇāgiri with a reduced Saṅgha of monks.

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