{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20071.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20071.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20071.htm","text":"1. Now at that time there was a very valuable rug, and a very valuable piece of cloth, among the bedding furniture belonging to the Samgha.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to barter either of these things in order to increase the stock of legally permissible furniture 4.'\nNow at that time the Samgha had received a\nbear-skin, and a kakkali 1 rug, and a kolaka cloth 2.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to use them as mats to wipe your feet on 3'\n217:3 Because such things were forbidden by Mah\u00e2vagga V, 10, 4, though kambala is not there specially mentioned.\n217:4 Ph\u00e2tikammatth\u00e2y\u00e2 ti vaddhikammatth\u00e2y\u00e2 ti. Vaddhikammatth\u00e2ya ph\u00e2tikammam k\u2019 ettha samakam v\u00e2 atirekam va agghanakam ma\u00f1ka-p\u00eeth\u00e2di-sen\u00e2sanam eva vattati (B.).\n218:1 According to VI, 2, 2, and VI, 3, 5, this could also be used as a screen or curtain over the space in a wall left for a window.\n218:2 According to Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, 18, this might be used to wipe faces with; and according to Kullavagga V, 9, 4, VI, 19, to place crockery or furniture on. The word kola means simply cotton cloth, but it is clear from these passages that kolaka has some special connotation.\n218:3 Not to sit upon.","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 19","type":"page"}