{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20033.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20033.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20033.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus separated themselves from the mats on which they sat down for four months 5.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to separate yourselves for four months from the mats on which you sit\ndown. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus lay down to sleep on beds scattered over with flowers.\nPeople who came on a visit to the Vih\u00e2ras saw it, and murmured, &c., saying, 'Like those who still live in the pleasures of the world.'\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to sleep on beds scattered over with flowers. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time people came to the \u00c2r\u00e2ma, bringing perfumes and garlands. The Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not accept them.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus; to accept the perfume, and to apply it to the door for a space of five finger-breadths 1; and to accept the flowers, and put them on one side in the Vih\u00e2ra.'\n115:5 Compare the 2nd Nissaggiya.\n116:1 Kav\u00e2te pa\u00f1ka\u1e45gulikam d\u00e2tum, on which Buddhaghosa has no note. This measure occurs in G\u00e2taka I, 166, 192; Fausb\u00f6ll's 'Five G\u00e2takas' 6; and Mah\u00e2vamsa, p. 193.","title":"SBE 20: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 18","type":"page"}