Uposatha SuttÄ
1. Uposatha SuttÄ.- Suttas dealing with questions asked by monks of the Buddha as to why certain NÄgas (egg-born, womb-born, moisture-born and born without parents) should keep the fast day, divesting themselves of their NÄga forms! The Buddha replies that they do so because they wish to be born in happy states. S.iii.241f.
2. Uposatha Sutta.- One Uposatha-day, the Buddha, surrounded by the company of monks, was seated in the MigÄramÄtu-pÄsÄda, in SÄvatthi. Looking round and finding them seated in silence, he spoke their praises, saying how some of them had won access to the devas, some to Brahma, others to the Imperturbable (Änejja), and yet others to the Ariyan state. A.ii.183f.
3. Uposatha Sutta.- One uposatha-night, during the first watch, Ä€nanda approaches the Buddha and asks him to recite the PÄtimokkha. Three times he asks, but the Buddha remains silent, and at last says that the assembly is impure. MahÄmoggallÄna, who is present, looks round, and seeing there a monk given up to wicked ways, asks him to leave. On his refusing to do so, MoggallÄna takes him by the hand and leads him away. Thereupon the Buddha proceeds to explain how, just as the sea is full of eight kinds of marvels, so is the Dhamma. A.iv.204ff.
4. Uposatha Sutta.- (v.l. Uposathaá¹…ga Sutta). VisÄkhÄ, having taken the uposatha vows, visits the Buddha at noontide in the MigÄramÄtupÄsÄda. The Buddha explains to her that there are various ways of observing the sabbath; these he describes as the herdsman’s sabbath, the sabbath of the naked ascetics and the sabbath of the Noble Ones. A.i.206f.
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