{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17088.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17088.htm","text":"1. Now the Bhikkhus thought: 'What is the limit for the size of a robe up to which it ought to be handed over to another Bhikkhu 1?'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, to hand over any robe which is in length eight inches according to the accepted inch 2.'\nNow at that time a robe belonging to the venerable Mah\u00e2 Kassapa, which had been made of cast-off pieces of cloth became heavy (by reason of the weight of the new pieces tacked on to it 3).\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to darn it roughly together with thread 4.'\nIt was uneven at the end 5.\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to remove the unevenness 6.'\nThe threads frayed out 1.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to put a braiding or a binding along or round (the edge) 2:\nNow at that time the ribbons 3 of the under garment gave way 4.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make an eight-footed . . . 5.'\n2. Now at that time when a set of robes was being made for a certain Bhikkhu it was impossible to make it entirely from torn pieces of cloth 6.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have two of the robes made of torn pieces of cloth, and one of cloth not torn.'\nIt was impossible to make two of the robes of torn pieces of cloth, and one of cloth not torn.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make two robes\n[paragraph continues] (out of the set) of untorn pieces, and one of torn pieces.'\nEven this was impossible.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make (each robe out of the set) half (from torn pieces) and half 1 (from untorn pieces). But a set of robes made entirely from untorn pieces is not to be worn. Whosoever shall wear (a set of robes so made) is guilty of a dukkata.'\n230:1 See VIII, 13, 8, and our note on the 59th P\u00e2kittiya.\n230:2 See our note on this word in the 92nd P\u00e2kittiya.\n230:3 So explains the commentary, Khinna-tth\u00e2ne aggal\u00e2ropanena garuko hoti.\n230:4 Suttal\u00fbkham k\u00e2tun ti sutten\u2019 eva aggalam k\u00e2tun ti attho (B.). Compare above, chapter 12. 2.\n230:5 Vikanno ti suttam a\u00f1kitv\u00e2 sibbant\u00e2nam eko samgh\u00e2ti-kono digho hoti, says Buddhaghosa. Vikannaka in the 233rd G\u00e2taka seems to mean 'harpoon.'\n230:6 Vikannam uddharitun ti d\u00eegha-konam khinditum (B.).\n231:1 Okirat\u00ee (sic) ti khinna-konato galati (B.). Galati at VI, r3, 1, is 'ran over,' whereas okiriyanti at the corresponding passages VI, 12, 1, 2, is 'were spilt.' Probably the above rendering is the real meaning here, as the threads could not be literally spilt or sprinkled.\n231:2 On these difficult technical terms Buddhaghosa provokingly says, anuv\u00e2tam paribhandam anuv\u00e2ta\u00f1 k\u2019 eva paribhandam. Childers, under the first, has merely 'with the wind,' and under the second, 'girdle.' The same expressions occur also above, at VII, 1, 5, where Buddhaghosa, again only explains the words by the words themselves.\n231:3 We probably ought to read patt\u00e2, not patt\u00e2; but what is meant by the ribbons of the samgh\u00e2ti is very doubtful. Buddhaghosa says nothing.\n231:4 For luggati compare paluggati.\n231:5 What this is is again uncertain, and Buddhaghosa gives no help.\n231:6 See above, chapter 11, at the end.\n232:1 Anv\u00e2dhikam, on which Buddhaghosa says nothing.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 21","type":"page"}