{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20107.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20107.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20107.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus had come into the possession of some bedding, and the Bhikkhun\u00ees had none. The Bhikkhun\u00ees sent a messenger to the Bhikkhus, saying: 'It would be well if their reverences the Bhikkhus would give us some bedding on loan 1.'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give bedding to the Bhikkhun\u00ees on loan.'\n2. Now at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees, in their courses, sat down or lay down on stuffed bedsteads and chairs, and the stuffing was soiled with blood.\nA Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to sit down or lie down on a stuffed bedstead or chair. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow the use, O Bhikkhus, of an indoor's robe 2.'\nThe indoor's robe got soiled.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a thigh-cloth (a cloth to reach nearly down to the knee 1).'\nThe thigh-cloth slipped down.\n'I allow it, O Bhikkhus, to be fastened by a thread to be tied round the thigh.'\nThe thread broke.\n'I allow, O Bhikkhus, a loin-cloth, and a string going round the hips (to keep it up) 2.'\nNow at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhun\u00ees used to wear the hip-string always. The people murmured, &c., saying: 'Like the women who still enjoy the pleasures of the world!' They told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to wear a hip-string for constant use 3. I allow its use to one who is in her courses.'\n347:1 T\u00e2vak\u00e2likam. See the passages quoted in our note above on Kullavagga VI, 18.\n347:2 \u00c2vasatha-k\u00eevaram. See the Old Commentary on this word as occurring in the 47th Bhikkhun\u00ee P\u00e2kittiya.\n348:1 \u00c2ni-kolakam. Buddhaghosa has no note on this. \u00c2ni must be here 'that part of the leg immediately above the knee, the front of the thigh.' Compare B\u00f6htlingk-Roth s.v. No. 2.\n348:2 Samvelliyam kati-suttakam. The samvelliyam is the ordinary undress as worn for the sake of decency, even now, by a labourer working in muddy paddy fields, or at any severe task. It is a wedge-shaped strip of cotton cloth about a foot and a half long, about five inches wide at one end, and tapering down to one inch in width at the other. The broad end is fixed on to a string going round the waist (kati-suttakam), and hangs down, when put on, in front of the legs. When worn under other clothes, it remains so; but when the other clothes are taken off for work the narrow end is passed under the body between the legs, and twisted round the hip-string behind (at the small of the back) so as to keep it fast. Its use is forbidden to Bhikkhus at V, 29, 5, where Buddhaghosa says, 'Such as wrestlers and labourers wear.'\n348:3 Its use is also forbidden to Bhikkhus (above, Kullavagga V 2, 1).","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 16","type":"page"}