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Mv I 62
PTS: Mv I 75 | CS: vin.mv.01.62
Gabbhavīsūpasampadānujānanā
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The Allowance for Giving Acceptance to One Twenty Years After Becoming a Fetus
by
Ven. Khematto Bhikkhu
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62. gabbhavīsūpasampadānujānanā (Mv.I.75.1)
The Allowance for Giving Acceptance to One Twenty Years After Becoming a Fetus [BMC: 1 2]

[141] tena kho pana samayena āyasmā kumārakassapo gabbhavīso upasampanno hoti.

Now on that occasion Ven. Kumāra [Boy] Kassapa had been given Acceptance twenty years after becoming a fetus.

athakho āyasmato kumārakassapassa etadahosi bhagavatā paññattaṁ na ūnavīsativasso puggalo upasampādetabboti ahañcamhi gabbhavīso upasampanno upasampanno nu khomhi na nu kho upasampannoti.

The thought occurred to him, “ It has been laid down by the Blessed One that, ‘an individual less than twenty years old should not be given Acceptance.’ But I have been given Acceptance twenty years after becoming a fetus. Am I accepted or not?”

bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ.

They reported the matter to the Blessed One.

yaṁ bhikkhave mātu kucchismiṁ paṭhamaṁ cittaṁ uppannaṁ paṭhamaṁ viññāṇaṁ pātubhūtaṁ tadupādāya sāvassa jāti

“When in the mother’s womb the mind first arises and consciousness first appears, in dependence on that is one’s birth.

anujānāmi bhikkhave gabbhavīsaṁ upasampādetunti.

“I allow that Acceptance be given to one (at least) twenty years after becoming a fetus.”

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