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VI, 11, 4.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so]. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time the Bhikkhus, after the lodgingplaces had been allotted, kept them to the exclusion of others for all time.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do so. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow you to retain them for the three months of the rainy, but not for the dry season.
4. Then the Bhikkhus thought, 'What is (it now that constitutes) an allotment of lodging-places ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One. *There are these three allotments of lodgingplaces, O Bhikkhus,--the earlier, the later, and the intermediate. The earlier is to be held on the day after the full moon of  sâlha (June July); the later, a month after that full moon"; the intermediate (literally that which involves a giving up during the intervening time) is held on the day after the Pavaranâ ceremony, with reference to the rainy season of the following year. These, O Bhikkhus, are the three allotments of lodging-places. .
Here ends the Second Portion for Recitation.
12. 1. Now the venerable Upananda the Sâkyan, after having had a lodging allotted to him in
1 These first two dates are the days on which the earlier and the later Vassa begins. See Mahavagga III, 2.
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