{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20072.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20072.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20072.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus walked over the mats used for sleeping upon with unwashen or wet feet, or with their sandals on; and the matting was soiled.\nThey told these matters to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so. Whosoever does, shall be guilty of a dukkata 4.'\n2. Now at that time the Bhikkhus spat on the newly prepared floor 5, and the colour was spoilt.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so. Whosoever does, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a spittoon.'\nNow at that time the legs of the bedsteads and chairs made scratches on the newly prepared floor. They told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cover it up with floor-cloth.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus leant up against the newly prepared walls 1, and the colouring was spoilt.\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so. Whosoever does, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a board to lean up against 2.'\nThe board scratched the floor at the bottom, and ruined the wall at the top.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cover it at the top and bottom with cloth.'\nNow at that time, fearing to offend, they would not lie down on places over which it was permissible to walk with washen feet 3.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to lie down in such a place when you have spread something over it.'\n218:4 With this should be compared the other rule in Mah\u00e2vagga V, 6, 1, according to which the Bhikkhus were to wear sandals when getting upon bedsteads or chairs, lest these should become soiled. The two passages are parallel in wording throughout.\n218:5 Parikammakat\u00e2ya. The floors were of earth, not of wood, and were restored from time to time by fresh clay or dry cowdung being laid down, and then covered with a whitewash, in which sometimes black or red (geruka) was mixed. See above, V, 11, 6; VI, 3, 1; 17, 1; 27. From the parallel passage at Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 15, and Kullavagga VIII, 3, 1, it would seem that the red colouring was used rather for walls, and the black one for floors.\n219:1 'The walls were no doubt usually made with 'wattle and daub;' that is, sticks with clay between the interstices. This was treated from time to time like the flooring (see last note).\n219:2 Apassena-phalakam. This article of furniture is mentioned, with the spittoon, in Mah\u00e2vagga I, 45, 15, 16, and in the parallel passage at Kullavagga VIII, 1, 3. We have rendered it in the Mah\u00e2vagga by 'board to recline on.' Compare the use of apassayam in Buddhaghosa's note on Kullavagga VI, 2, 4 (above, p. 153, note 3) of an arm-chair or sofa.\n219:3 Dhotap\u00e2dak\u00e2 ti dhotap\u00e2dak\u00e2 hutv\u00e2 dhotehi p\u00e2dehi akkamitabbath\u00e2ne nipaggitum kukkukk\u00e2yanti. Dhotap\u00e2dake ti pi p\u00e2tho. Dhotehi p\u00e2dehi akkamitabbatth\u00e2nass\u2019 eva etam adhivakanam (B.).","title":"SBE 20: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 20","type":"page"}