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VIII, 36, 4.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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Ânanda: 'Go, Ånanda, and fetch some water. Let us bathe this Bhikkhu.'
Even so, Lord,' said the venerable Ananda, in assent to the Blessed One, and fetched the water. And the Blessed One poured the water over that Bhikkhu ; and the venerable Ånanda wiped him down. And the Blessed One taking hold of him at the head, and the venerable Ananda at the feet, they lifted him up, and laid him down upon his bed.
3. Then the Blessed One, on that occasion and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha, and asked the Bhikkhus, 'Is there, O Bhikkhus, in such and such an apartment, a Bhikkhu who is sick?'
"There is, Lord.'
*Then what, О Bhikkhus, is the matter with that Bhikkhu ?'
He has a disturbance, Lord, in his bowels.'
And is there any one, O Bhikkhus, to wait upon him ?'
No, Lord.' Why, then, do not the Bhikkhus wait upon him?' "That Bhikkhu, Lord, is of no service to the Bhikkhus; therefore do they not wait upon him.
'Ye, O Bhikkhus, have no mothers and no fathers who might wait upon you! If ye, O Bhikkhus, wait not one upon the other, who is there indeed who will wait upon you? Whosoever, O Bhikkhus, would wait upon me, he should wait upon the sick.
4. 'If he have an upagghầya, his upaggha ya should wait upon him as long as his life lasts, and wait until he has recovered ; and so if he have an åkariya, a saddhi-viharika, an antevâsika, a fellow
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