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hand them over-to keep to yourselves the cloths to wipe the face with, and those required for waterstrainers and bags, and not to hand them over.'
VIII, 21, 1.
21.
1. Now the Bhikkhus thought: 'What is the limit for the size of a robe up to which it ought to be handed over to another Bhikkhu1?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, to hand over any robe which is in length eight inches according to the accepted inch?'
Now at that time a robe belonging to the venerable Maha Kassapa, which had been made of cast-off pieces of cloth became heavy (by reason of the weight of the new pieces tacked on to it3).
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to darn it roughly together with thread'.'
It was uneven at the end".
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to remove the unevenness".'
1 See VIII, 13, 8, and our note on the 59th Pâkittiya.
2 See our note on this word in the 92nd Pâkittiya.
3 So explains the commentary, Khinna-tthâne aggalâropanena garuko hoti.
Suttalûkham kâtun ti sutten' eva aggalam kâtun ti attho (B.). Compare above, chapter 12. 2.
5 Vikanno ti suttam añkitvâ sibbantânam eko samghân-kono digho hoti, says Buddhaghosa. Vikannaka in the 233rd Gâtaka seems to mean 'harpoon.'
Vikannam uddharitun ti dîgha-konam khinditum (B.).
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