Note 477 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
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Mahâvagga, ii, 4, 1-2 (S. B. E., xiii, 246 sq.). The patimokkha is one of the oldest parts of the Buddhist canonical compositions. The Pali version has been translated in full by Professors Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg (S. B. E., vol. xiii) and the part for monks, by J. F. Dickson (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1876, n.s., viii, 62-130). For a description of these ceremonies as witnessed March 27, 1893, at the Malwatta monastery in Kandy see E. M. Bowden, “The uposatha and upasampadâ Ceremonies,” ibid., 1893, n.s., xxv, 159-161. Mr. Bowden notes that at the Malwatta monastery the uposatha service is held more frequently on the day which precedes the new and the full moon than on the new and full-moon days.