{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17069.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17069.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17069.htm","text":"At that time the king of K\u00e2si 2 sent to G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka a woollen garment made half of Benares cloth . . . 3. Then G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka\ntook that woollen garment made half of Benares cloth and went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him, and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he sat down near him. Sitting near him, G\u00eevaka Kom\u00e2rabhakka said to the Blessed One: 'Lord, this woollen garment made half of Benares cloth. . . . 1 has been sent to me by the king of K\u00e2si. May the Blessed One, Lord, accept this woollen garment, which may be to me a long time for a good and a blessing.' The Blessed One accepted that woollen garment.\nAnd the Blessed One taught (&c., as in chap. I, 34, down to:) and went away.\nAnd the Blessed One, after having delivered a religious discourse in consequence of that, thus addressed the Bhikkhus:\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to use woollen garments.'\n195:2 Buddhaghosa: 'This king was Pasenadi's brother, the same father's son.' He appears to have been a sub-king of Pasenadi, for in the Lohikka-sutta it is stated that Pasenadi's rule extended both over K\u00e2si and Kosala ('R\u00e2g\u00e2 Pasenadi Kosalo K\u00e2sikosalam aggh\u00e2vasati').\n195:3 Our translation of addhak\u00e2sikam kambalam is merely p. 196 conjectural. Buddhaghosa has the following note: 'Addhak\u00e2siyam, here k\u00e2si means one thousand; a thing that is worth one thousand, is called k\u00e2siya. This garment was worth five hundred; therefore it is called addhak\u00e2siya. And for the same reason it is said, upaddhak\u00e2sinam khamam\u00e2nam.' Perhaps vik\u00e2sikam at VI, 15, 5 may have some connection with the word used here.\n196:1 See last note.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 2","type":"page"}