Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c10.76

c10.76

∗ Of Buddha’s Order the same may be said which the Brahmajâla Sutta represents people saying to each other regarding Buddha himself: “From receiving bondsmen and bondswomen, the ascetic Gotama refrains—from receiving elephants, cattle, horses and mares, the ascetic Gotama refrains—from receiving arable land the ascetic Gotama refrains.” In the Vinaya texts, accordingly, nothing is found which points to the pursuit of agriculture, except only one, quite solitary passage, “Mahâvagga,” vi, 39, which hardly refers to anything more than the occasional sowing of seed in the land belonging to the Ârâmas.