{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17078.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17078.htm","text":"1. At that time the Bhikkhus spread the cloth on the floor (when they had dyed it); the cloth became dusty.\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you spread grass (and put the cloth on it).'\nThe grass they had spread was eaten by white ants. They told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you get a bamb\u00fb peg or rope to hang the cloth on.'\nThey hung it up in the middle; the dye dropped down on both sides.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you tie it fast at the corner.'\nThe corner wore out.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, the use of a clothes-line.'\nThe dye dropped down on one side.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you turn the cloth, when dying it, whenever required, and that you do not go away before the dye has ceased to drop.'\n2. At that time the cloth had become stiff 1. They told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you clip (the cloth) into water (in order to remove the excessive dye).' At that time the cloth became rough.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, (that you smooth it by) beating it with your hands.'\nAt that time the Bhikkhus possessed akkhinnaka 1 robes of yellowish colour like ivory. The people were annoyed, murmured, and became angry: '(The Bhikkhus dress) like those who still live in the pleasures of the world.'\n'You ought not, O Bhikkhus, to possess akkhinnaka robes. He who does, commits a dukkata offence.'\n206:1 Buddhaghosa: Patthinan ti (this is the reading of the Berlin MS.) atiragitatt\u00e2 thaddham, i.e. 'Patthinam means that it had become stiff from too much dye.' Th\u00eena or thinna is Sanskrit sty\u00e2na.\n207:1 That is, made of untorn cloth. See VIII, 21, 2.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 11","type":"page"}