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VIII, 18, 1.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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What is the matter, O Bhikkhus, with this Bhikkhu ?'
The venerable one has the disease of thick scabs; and by reason of the discharge thereof his robes stick to his body. So we are moistening those robes thoroughly with water, to loosen them (from his body).
2. Then the Blessed One on that occasion, after having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said :
I allow, O Bhikkhus, to whomsoever has the itch, or boils, or a discharge, or scabs, the use of an itch-cloth!!
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1. Now Visakha the mother of Migâra took a cloth for wiping the face, and went up to the place where the Blessed One was. And on arriving there, she saluted the Blessed One, and took her seat on one side, and, so sitting, Visakhâ the mother of Migara spake thus to the Blessed One:
May the Blessed One be pleased to accept of me this cloth for wiping the face, that that may be to me for a long time for a blessing and for good.'
And the Blessed One accepted the cloth for wiping the face. And he taught, and incited, and aroused, and gladdened Visâkhâ the mother of Migâra with religious discourse. And she, so taught &c., rose from her seat, and saluted the
1 According to the goth Påkittiya such a cloth must not be more than four spans in length, and two in breadth.
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