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MAHAVAGGA.
VIII, 13, 8.
And the venerable Ananda told this thing to the
Blessed One.
'How long will it be, Ânanda, before the venerable Sâriputta returns?'
'He will come back, Lord, on the ninth or the tenth day from now.'
Then the Blessed One on that occasion, when he had delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to keep an extra suit of robes up to the tenth day'.'
8. Now at that time the Bhikkhus used to get extra suits of robes given to them. And these Bhikkhus thought: 'What now should we do with extra suits of robes?'
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They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I enjoin upon you, O Bhikkhus, to make over an extra suit of robes (to other Bhikkhus who have no robes2).'
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I. Now when the Blessed One had remained at Vesâli as long as he thought fit, he went onwards on his journey towards Benares. And in due course he arrived at Benares, and there, at Benares, he stayed in the hermitage in the Migadâya.
Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu's under robe was torn. And that Bhikkhu thought: "The Blessed
1 So the first Nissaggiya; the second section of the Sutta-vibhanga on which rule is identical with this section 7.
On vikappetum, compare our note above, the 69th Pâkittiya, and below, chapters 20, 22.
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