{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17074.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17074.htm","text":"At that time the Bhikkhus appointed to lay the robes by, laid the robes by in an open hall, or at the foot of a tree, or in the hollow of a Nimba tree 1; thus they were eaten by rats and white ants.\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\nI prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you appoint what the Samgha chooses, a Vih\u00e2ra, or an Addhayoga 2, or a storied building, or an attic, or a cave, to be the store-room 3 (of the Samgha).\n'And you ought, O Bhikkhus, to appoint it in this way: Let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following \u00f1atti before the Samgha: \"Let the Samgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. If the Samgha is ready, let the Samgha appoint the Vih\u00e2ra called N. N, to be the store-room (of the Samgha), (&c., the usual formula of a \u00f1aattidutiya kamma).\"'\n201:1 Compare III, 12, 5.\n201:2 Compare I, 30, 4.\n201:3 The word bhand\u00e2g\u00e2ra does not imply any special reference to robes more than to any other articles belonging to the Samgha. A good many things which were usually kept in the bhand\u00e2g\u00e2ra are mentioned at Kullav. VI, 21, 3.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 7","type":"page"}