{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20109.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20109.htm","text":"Now at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees wasted their time in the dining-hall, doubting as to which should take which seat.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that the senior eight Bhikkhun\u00ees shall take their seats according to seniority, and the rest as they happen to come in.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees, on the ground that the Blessed One had so prescribed, let the eight senior Bhikkhun\u00ees in every other place take\nexclusive possession (of the first eight seats), and the rest arranged themselves as they came in.\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, as above, only in the case of the dining-hall. Everywhere else let there be no exclusive right to seats by seniority.'","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 18","type":"page"}