{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17086.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17086.htm","text":"1. Now at that time Roga the Malla was a friend of the venerable \u00c2nanda's 1. And a linen cloth belonging to Roga the Malla had been deposited in the keeping of the venerable \u00c2nanda; and the venerable \u00c2nanda had need of a linen cloth.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to take a thing on trust (that it would be given to you) when it belongs to a person possessed of these five qualifications--he must be an intimate and familiar friend who has been spoken to (about it) 2 and is alive, (and the Bhikkhu taking the thing) must know \"He will remain pleased with me after I have taken it.\" I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to take a thing on trust (that it would be given to you) 3 when it belongs to a person possessed of these five qualifications.'\n228:1 He is also mentioned as such in Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 36.\n228:2 Buddhaghosa says, \u00c2lapito ti mama santakam ganh\u00e2hi yam ikkheyy\u00e2s\u00eeti evam vutto.\n228:3 Viss\u00e2sam gahetum, on which phrase compare viss\u00e2s\u00e2 ganh\u00e2ti in chapter 31, below, where the context leaves no doubt as to its meaning.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 19","type":"page"}