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**Muhabsssa** · 08-13-2011, 07:39 AM

This does not appear to accord with your source's description of him:

A wandering monk, the leader of a large company, Venerable Purāna, while travelling through the Southern Hills south of Rājagaha, came to the cave

IIRC, in the Vinaya, monks are restricted on the number of lower-ranked monks they can lead by a) their ability to effectively instruct and b) by seniority, which is measured not in terms of skill, but by length of time in the community. I'd have to look it up again to be more precise, tho. There was also something about their ability to provide robes and other requisites.

08-13-2011, 07:39 AM	#30
Muhabsssa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 577 Senior Member	This does not appear to accord with your source's description of him: A wandering monk, the leader of a large company, Venerable Purāna, while travelling through the Southern Hills south of Rājagaha, came to the cave IIRC, in the Vinaya, monks are restricted on the number of lower-ranked monks they can lead by a) their ability to effectively instruct and b) by seniority, which is measured not in terms of skill, but by length of time in the community. I'd have to look it up again to be more precise, tho. There was also something about their ability to provide robes and other requisites.
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