Pāṭidesanīyakaṇḍa

Vinayapiṭaka · Bhikkhunī Vibhaṅga · Vol. 3 · Section 486

[486] **"Whatever … (yā pana)"** means: whoever, of whatever sort … **"Bhikkhunī"** means: … this is the bhikkhunī intended in this context. **"Not sick" (agilānā)** means: one for whom there is comfort without ghee. **"Sick" (gilānā)** means: one for whom there is no comfort without ghee. **"Ghee" (sappi)** means: ghee from cows, ghee from goats, or ghee from buffaloes — the ghee of those animals whose flesh is allowable (kappiya). Not being sick, she requests it for her own benefit: in the act [of requesting], an offense of wrong-doing (dukkaṭa); on obtaining it, she accepts it, thinking, "I shall eat it" — an offense of wrong-doing; for every mouthful swallowed, an offense to be acknowledged (pāṭidesanīya).

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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