{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43","title":"Spinning yarn","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Brahmāli · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43","title":"Spinning yarn","units":[{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0.1","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0.2","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0.3","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0.4","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:0.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theravāda Vinaya\nBhikkhunivibhaṅga\nPācittiyakaṇḍa\nCittāgāravagga\n43. Suttakantanasikkhāpada","en":"Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law\nThe Nuns’ Analysis\nThe chapter on offenses entailing confession\nThe subchapter on galleries\nSpinning yarn"}},{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.0","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.1","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.2","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.3","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.4","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.5","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.6","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.7","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.8","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.9","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.10","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.11","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.12","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Origin story\nAt one time when the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery,\nthe nuns from the group of six were spinning yarn.\nWhen people walking about the dwellings saw this, they complained and criticized them,\n“How can the nuns spin yarn? They’re just like householders who indulge in worldly pleasures!”\nThe nuns heard the complaints of those people,\nand the nuns of few desires complained and criticized them,\n“How can the nuns from the group of six spin yarn?” …\n“Is it true, monks, that those nuns do this?”\n“It’s true, sir.”\nThe Buddha rebuked them …\n“How can the nuns from the group of six do this?\nThis will affect people’s confidence …” …\n“And, monks, the nuns should recite this training rule like this:","pi":"Tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhuniyo suttaṁ kantanti.\nManussā vihāracārikaṁ āhiṇḍantā passitvā ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti—\n“kathañhi nāma bhikkhuniyo suttaṁ kantissanti, seyyathāpi gihiniyo kāmabhoginiyo”ti.\nAssosuṁ kho bhikkhuniyo tesaṁ manussānaṁ ujjhāyantānaṁ khiyyantānaṁ vipācentānaṁ.\nYā tā bhikkhuniyo appicchā …pe… tā ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti—\n“kathañhi nāma chabbaggiyā bhikkhuniyo suttaṁ kantissantī”ti …pe…\n“saccaṁ kira, bhikkhave, chabbaggiyā bhikkhuniyo suttaṁ kantantī”ti?\n“Saccaṁ, bhagavā”ti.\nVigarahi buddho bhagavā …pe…\nkathañhi nāma, bhikkhave, chabbaggiyā bhikkhuniyo suttaṁ kantissanti.\nNetaṁ, bhikkhave, appasannānaṁ vā pasādāya …pe…\nevañca pana, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniyo imaṁ sikkhāpadaṁ uddisantu—"}},{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.14","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.14.0","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:1.14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Final ruling\n‘If a nun spins yarn, she commits an offense entailing confession.’”","pi":"“Yā pana bhikkhunī suttaṁ kanteyya, pācittiyan”ti."}},{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.0","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.1","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.2","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.3","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.4","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.5","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.6","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.7","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.8","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.9","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Definitions\nA:\nwhoever …\nNun:\n… The nun who has been given the full ordination in unanimity by both Sanghas through a legal procedure consisting of one motion and three announcements that is irreversible and fit to stand—this sort of nun is meant in this case.\nYarn:\nthere are six kinds of yarn:\nlinen, cotton, silk, wool, sunn hemp, and hemp.\nSpins:\nif she spins it herself, then for the effort there is an act of wrong conduct.\nFor every pull, she commits an offense entailing confession.","pi":"Yā panāti\nyā yādisā …pe…\nbhikkhunīti\n…pe… ayaṁ imasmiṁ atthe adhippetā bhikkhunīti.\nSuttaṁ nāma\ncha suttāni—\nkhomaṁ, kappāsikaṁ, koseyyaṁ, kambalaṁ, sāṇaṁ, bhaṅgaṁ.\nKanteyyāti\nsayaṁ kantati, payoge dukkaṭaṁ.\nUjjavujjave āpatti pācittiyassa."}},{"id":"pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.0","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.1","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.2","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.3","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.4","pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43:2.2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Non-offenses\nThere is no offense:\nif she spins yarn that has already been spun;\nif she is insane;\nif she is the first offender.\nThe third training rule is finished.","pi":"Anāpatti—\nkantitasuttaṁ kantati,\nummattikāya,\nādikammikāyāti.\nTatiyasikkhāpadaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-bi-vb-pc43/en/brahmali","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}