{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17085.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17085.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17085.htm","text":"1. Now Vis\u00e2kh\u00e2 the mother of Mig\u00e2ra took a cloth for wiping the face, and went up to the place where the Blessed One was. And on arriving there, she saluted the Blessed One, and took her seat on one side, and, so sitting, Vis\u00e2kh\u00e2 the mother of Mig\u00e2ra spake thus to the Blessed One:\n'May the Blessed One be pleased to accept of me this cloth for wiping the face, that that may be to me for a long time for a blessing and for good.'\nAnd the Blessed One accepted the cloth for wiping the face. And he taught, and incited, and aroused, and gladdened Vis\u00e2kh\u00e2 the mother of Mig\u00e2ra with religious discourse. And she, so taught &c., rose from her seat, and saluted the\n[paragraph continues] Blessed One, and passing him on her right side, she departed thence.\nThen the Blessed One on that occasion, after having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a cloth to wipe your faces with.'","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 18","type":"page"}