Manual of Indian Buddhism c7.s2.2

c7.s2.2

The most circumstantial account is preserved in the P. Vinaya⁴. It is in substance as follows. A century after the Lord's Parinirvāṇa the monks of Vṛji (Vajjī) lineage at Vaiśālī declared as permissible the Ten Points (*dasa vatthūni*), to wit: 1. storing salt in a horn; 2. the taking of the midday meal when the sun's shadow shows two finger-breadths after noon; 3. the going to some village (or: to another village) and there eating fresh food⁵; 4. residing (in the same parish and yet holding the Uposatha separately); 5. sanction (of a solemn act in an incomplete chapter); 6. the (unconditional) following of a precedent; 7. the partaking of unchurned milk; 8. of unfermented toddy; 9. the use of a mat without fringes (not conform with the model prescribed); 10. to accept gold and silver.