{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50","title":"Seeing an army in action","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Brahmāli · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50","title":"Seeing an army in action","units":[{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0.1","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0.2","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0.3","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0.4","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:0.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theravāda Vinaya\nMahāvibhaṅga\nPācittiyakaṇḍa\nAcelakavagga\n50. Uyyodhikasikkhāpada","en":"Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law\nThe Great Analysis\nThe chapter on offenses entailing confession\nThe subchapter on naked ascetics\nSeeing an army in action"}},{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.0","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.1","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.2","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.3","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.4","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.5","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.6","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.7","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.8","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.9","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.10","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.11","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.12","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.13","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.14","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.15","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.16","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.17","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.18"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Origin story\nOn one occasion when the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery,\nthe monks from the group of six were staying with the army for two or three nights. They went to see battles, troop reviews, the massing of the army, and troop inspections.\nOne of the monks who went to a battle was struck by an arrow.\nPeople teased him,\n“We hope you had a good battle, venerable. How many targets did you hit?”\nAnd because they teased him, he felt humiliated.\nPeople complained and criticized those monks,\n“How can the Sakyan monastics go to see a battle?\nIt’s our misfortune that we must go to battles for the sake of our livelihoods and because of our wives and children.”\nThe monks heard the complaints of those people,\nand the monks of few desires complained and criticized those monks,\n“How could the monks from the group of six go to see a battle?” …\n“Is it true, monks, that you did this?”\n“It’s true, sir.”\nThe Buddha rebuked them …\n“Foolish men, how could you do this?\nThis will affect people’s confidence …” …\n“And, monks, this training rule should be recited like this:","pi":"Tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū dirattatirattaṁ senāya vasamānā uyyodhikampi balaggampi senābyūhampi anīkadassanampi gacchanti.\nAññataropi chabbaggiyo bhikkhu uyyodhikaṁ gantvā kaṇḍena paṭividdho hoti.\nManussā taṁ bhikkhuṁ uppaṇḍesuṁ—\n“kacci, bhante, suyuddhaṁ ahosi, kati te lakkhāni laddhānī”ti?\nSo bhikkhu tehi manussehi uppaṇḍiyamāno maṅku ahosi.\nManussā ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti—\n“kathañhi nāma samaṇā sakyaputtiyā uyyodhikaṁ dassanāya āgacchissanti.\nAmhākampi alābhā, amhākampi dulladdhaṁ, ye mayaṁ ājīvassa hetu puttadārassa kāraṇā uyyodhikaṁ āgacchāmā”ti.\nAssosuṁ kho bhikkhū tesaṁ manussānaṁ ujjhāyantānaṁ khiyyantānaṁ vipācentānaṁ.\nYe te bhikkhū appicchā …pe… te ujjhāyanti khiyyanti vipācenti—\n“kathañhi nāma chabbaggiyā bhikkhū uyyodhikaṁ dassanāya gacchissantī”ti …pe…\n“saccaṁ kira tumhe, bhikkhave, uyyodhikaṁ dassanāya gacchathā”ti?\n“Saccaṁ, bhagavā”ti.\nVigarahi buddho bhagavā …pe…\nkathañhi nāma tumhe, moghapurisā, uyyodhikaṁ dassanāya gacchissatha.\nNetaṁ, moghapurisā, appasannānaṁ vā pasādāya …pe…\nevañca pana, bhikkhave, imaṁ sikkhāpadaṁ uddiseyyātha—"}},{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.19","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.19.0","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:1.19.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Final ruling\n‘If a monk who is staying with an army for two or three nights goes to a battle, a troop review, a massing of the army, or a troop inspection, he commits an offense entailing confession.’”","pi":"“Dirattatirattañce bhikkhu senāya vasamāno uyyodhikaṁ vā balaggaṁ vā senābyūhaṁ vā anīkadassanaṁ vā gaccheyya, pācittiyan”ti."}},{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.0","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.1","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.2","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.3","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.4","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.5","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.6","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.7","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.8","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.9","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.10","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.11","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.12","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.13","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.1.14"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Definitions\nIf a monk who is staying with an army for two or three nights:\nhe is staying for two or for three nights.\nA battle:\nwherever fighting is seen.\nA troop review:\nso many elephants, so many horses, so many chariots, so much infantry.\nA massing of the army:\nthe elephants should set out from here; the horses should set out from here; the chariots should set out from here; the infantry should set out from here.\nA troop:\nan elephant troop, a horse troop, a chariot troop, an infantry troop.\nThe smallest troop of elephants is three elephants; the smallest troop of horses is three horses; the smallest troop of chariots is three chariots; the smallest troop of infantry is four men with arrows in hand.\nIf he is on his way to see it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.\nWherever he stands to see it, he commits an offense entailing confession.\nEvery time he goes beyond the range of sight and then sees it again, he commits an offense entailing confession.","pi":"Dirattatirattañce bhikkhu senāya vasamānoti\ndvetisso rattiyo vasamāno.\nUyyodhikaṁ nāma\nyattha sampahāro dissati.\nBalaggaṁ nāma\nettakā hatthī, ettakā assā, ettakā rathā, ettakā pattī.\nSenābyūhaṁ nāma\nito hatthī hontu, ito assā hontu, ito rathā hontu, ito pattikā hontu.\nAnīkaṁ nāma\nhatthānīkaṁ, assānīkaṁ, rathānīkaṁ, pattānīkaṁ.\nTayo hatthī pacchimaṁ hatthānīkaṁ, tayo assā pacchimaṁ assānīkaṁ, tayo rathā pacchimaṁ rathānīkaṁ, cattāro purisā sarahatthā pattī pacchimaṁ pattānīkaṁ.\nDassanāya gacchati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.\nYattha ṭhito passati, āpatti pācittiyassa.\nDassanūpacāraṁ vijahitvā punappunaṁ passati, āpatti pācittiyassa."}},{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.2","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.2.0","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.2.1","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.2.2","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Permutations\nIf he is on his way to see one division of a fourfold army, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.\nWherever he stands to see it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.\nEvery time he goes beyond the range of sight and then sees it again, he commits an offense of wrong conduct.","pi":"Ekamekaṁ dassanāya gacchati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.\nYattha ṭhito passati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.\nDassanūpacāraṁ vijahitvā punappunaṁ passati, āpatti dukkaṭassa."}},{"id":"pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3","sourceIds":["pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.0","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.1","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.2","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.3","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.4","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.5","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.6","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.7","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.8","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.9","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.10","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.11","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.12","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.13","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.14","pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50:2.3.15"],"kind":"text","text":{"en":"Non-offenses\nThere is no offense:\nif he sees it while standing in a monastery;\nif the army comes to where the monk is standing, sitting, or lying down, and he then sees fighting;\nif he sees it while walking in the opposite direction;\nif he goes because there is something to be done, and he then sees it;\nif there is an emergency;\nif he is insane;\nif he is the first offender.\nThe training rule on seeing an army in action, the tenth, is finished.\nThe fifth subchapter on naked ascetics is finished.\nThis is the summary:\n“Cookie, talking, three on Upananda,\nAnd indeed supporting;\nMahānāma, Pasenadi,\nArmy, and struck: those are the ten.”","pi":"Anāpatti—\nārāme ṭhito passati,\nbhikkhussa ṭhitokāsaṁ vā nisinnokāsaṁ vā nipannokāsaṁ vā āgantvā sampahāro dissati,\npaṭipathaṁ gacchanto passati,\nsati karaṇīye gantvā passati,\nāpadāsu,\nummattakassa,\nādikammikassāti.\nUyyodhikasikkhāpadaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ dasamaṁ.\nAcelakavaggo pañcamo.\nTassuddānaṁ\nPūvaṁ kathopanandassa,\ntayaṁpaṭṭhākameva ca;\nMahānāmo pasenadi,\nsenāviddho ime dasāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-bu-vb-pc50/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."}
