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MAHÂVAGGA.
VIII, 31, 3.
venerable Sâriputta, asked him, saying, 'I sent to the venerable Thera a robe. Did that robe come into his hands ?' * I know nothing, friend, about that robe.'
Then the venerable Revata said to that Bhikkhu: 'I sent a robe, my friend, in your charge to the Thera. Where is that robe?'
'I took the robe myself, Lord, in trust upon
you.'
They told the matter to the Blessed One.
2. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu send a robe in charge of a Bhikkhu, saying, “Give this robe to such and such a Bhikkhu ;” and he, whilst on the way, takes it himself in trust on the one who sends it—then it is rightly taken. But if he takes it himself in trust on the one to whom it was sent, it is wrongly taken.
"[The same repeated, the latter case being put first, and the former case last.]
Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu send a robe in charge of a Bhikkhu, saying, “Give this robe to such and such a Bhikkhu ;" and he, whilst on the way, hears that that Bhikkhu who sent it is dead;—then if he keeps the robe himself as the robe of a deceased Bhikkhu, it is rightly kept; if he takes it himself in trust on the one to whom it was sent, it is wrongly taken.
[In the same case], if he, whilst on the way, hears that that Bhikkhu to whom it was sent is deadthen if he keeps the robe himself as the robe of a deceased Bhikkhu, it is wrongly kept; if he takes
* On this meaning of adhititthati, see our note above, VIII, 20, 2; VIII, 24, 2.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |