{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17092.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17092.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17092.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the venerable Upananda of the Sakya race, having spent the rainy season at S\u00e2vatthi, went to take up his abode in a certain village. The Bhikkhus in that place assembled together with the object of dividing the robes. They said to him\n'These robes, friend, which are the property of the Samgha, are about to be divided. Will you accept a share of them?'\n'Yes, friends, I will,' said he; and taking his share, departed thence and took up his abode elsewhere.\n[The same thing happened there, and] he departed thence and took up his abode elsewhere.\n[The same thing happened there, and so] he returned to S\u00e2vatthi with a great bundle of robes.\n2. The Bhikkhus said to him: 'What a meritorious\nof the robes be assigned to Upananda of the Sakya race?'\nThey told the matter to the Blessed One.\n'Give, O Bhikkhus, to that foolish one but one portion 1. In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu spend the rainy season alone in two residences, thinking thus to obtain many robes, then, if he have spent exactly half the season in one place and half in another, a half portion of the robes due to him shall be given to him in one place, and a half in the other; but in whichever place of the two he have spent a greater part of the rainy season, thence shall the portions of robes due to him be given.'\n238:1 There is a S\u00e2nav\u00e2si who takes a prominent part at the Council of Ves\u00e2l\u00ee (Kullavagga XII, 1, 8; XII, 2, 4). He is probably meant to be considered the same as this one.\nperson you are, friend Upananda. Plenty of robes have come into your possession!'\n'Where is my merit, friends?' said he, and [told them all that had happened] 1.\n3. 'How then, friend Upananda, have you spent the rainy season in one place, and accepted a share of robes in another place?'\n'Yes, friends, that is so.'\nThose Bhikkhus who were moderate were indignant, murmured, and became annoyed, saying, 'How can the venerable Upananda spend the rainy season in one place, and accept a share of robes in another place?'\n'Is it true, Upananda, as they say, that you have spent the rainy season in one place, and have accepted a share of robes in another place?'\n'It is true, Lord.'\nThe Blessed Buddha rebuked him, saying, 'How can you, O foolish one, act so? This will not redound to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted!'\nAnd after having rebuked him, and delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, saying, 'Whosoever, O Bhikkhus, has spent the rainy season in one place, is not to accept a share of the robes in another place. Whosoever does so shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\n4. Now at that time the venerable Upananda of the Sakya race spent the rainy season alone in two residences, thinking thus to obtain many robes. And the Bhikkhus thought: 'How should his portion\n239:1 Section 1 repeated, with the necessary change of person, &c.","title":"SBE 17: Eighth Khandhaka: Chapter 25","type":"page"}