Motif
acceptable and unacceptable ritual-practical implements
acceptable_and_unacceptable_ritual_practical_implements
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
buddhist
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Vinaya Texts, Part III: The Kullavagga IV-XII (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 20) V, 20, 7- OX THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS. 12 C / Y, 20, 7. / Y, 21, 2. / KULLAVAGGA.; lines 5966-6137 confidence: high
The Blessed One travels to Savatthi and stays at Jetavana; Visakha brings small jars, earthenware foot-scrubbers, and brooms, asks that acceptance be a blessing and joy, and the Blessed One accepts jars and brooms but not the foot-scrubbers.
The Blessed One distinguishes accepted and forbidden objects, allowing jars, brooms, sandstone, gravel, sea-foam, fans, flower-stands, and mosquito-fans while forbidding earthenware foot-scrubbers.
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