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MAHÂVAGGA.
VIII, 11, 1.
11.
1. At that time the Bhikkhus spread the cloth on the floor (when they had dyed it); the cloth became dusty.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you spread grass (and put the cloth on it).
The grass they had spread was eaten by white ants. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you get a bamba peg or rope to hang the cloth on.'
They hung it up in the middle; the dye dropped down on both sides.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you tie it fast at the corner.'
The corner wore out. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, the use of a clothesline.'
The dye dropped down on one side. They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you turn the cloth, when dying it, whenever required, and that you do not go away before the dye has ceased to drop.'
2. At that time the cloth had become stiff 1. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
* Buddhaghosa: Patthinan ti (this is the reading of the Berlin MS.) atira gitattâ thaddham, i. e. 'Patthinam means that it had become stiff from too much dye.' Thîna or thinna is Sanskrit styâna.
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