NOVICE-TO-BE - ပ႑ဳပလာသ


NOVICE-TO-BE Paṇḍupalᾱsa

ပ႑ဳပလာသ -          သာမေဏေလာင္း၊ ရွင္ေလာင္း။

ရွင္သာမေဏျပဳမည့္သူသည္ ရွင္သမေဏ မျပဳမီ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္း၌ ေနလ်က္ သကၤန္းေတာင္း, သီလေတာင္း, လိင္, ဒဏ္, ေသခိယ, စုဒၵသခႏၶက၀တ္ စသည္တုိ႔ကုိ က်က္မွတ္သင္ယူေလ့ ရွိၾကသည္။

ရွင္ေလာင္းဟူသည္ ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားအတြက္ လႉဒါန္းထားေသာ စားဦးစားဖ်ားကုိ ရထုိက္သူျဖစ္၏။

ရွင္ျပဳမည့္ေန႔တြင္ မင္းညီမင္းသား အ၀တ္အစားျဖင့္ဆင္ယင္၍ ဆင္ျမင္းမ်ားအေပၚတင္လ်က္ ခမ္းနားႀကီးက်ယ္စြာ ပုိ႔ေဆာင္ေလ့ရွိၾကသည္။ ဘုရားရွင္လက္ထက္ေတာ္က ပ႑ိတ၊ တိႆသာမေဏမ်ားႏွင့္ ဓမၼဒိႏၷာသာမေဏရီတုိ႔ကုိ ဘုရားေက်ာင္းေတာ္သုိ႔ ခမ္းနားစြာ ပုိ႔ေဆာင္ခဲ့ဖူးသည္။

Postulant, candidate for the state of a novice
One who is to be ordained as a sᾱmaṇera learns the formula for requesting the robes and the precepts, the liṅgas and the daṇḍas, the sekhiyas and khandhaka vattas by heart while staying at the monastery. He is worthy of taking ahead of others the food meant for bhikkhus. On the day of his ordination he is dressed as a prince, put on the back of an elephant or a horse and taken to the to the monastery in a grand precession. During the Buddha’s lifetime the sᾱmaṇeras Paṇḍita, Tissa and others and the sᾱmaṇeri Dhammadinnᾱwere sent in pomp and grandeur to the Buddha’s monastery.