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V, 4, I. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, ETC. 17
Now a certain lay-disciple who had put on a pair of shoes with many linings, saw the Blessed One approaching from afar. And when he saw him, he took off that pair of shoes and went up to the Blessed One, and saluted him; and went on to that Bhikkhu, and saluted him, and said:
2. 'Why does your reverence limp?'
'My feet, friend, are blistered.'
'But here, Sir, are shoes.'
'Enough, good friend! shoes with linings have been forbidden by the Blessed One.'
'Take the shoes, O Bhikkhu1!'
Then the Blessed One, on that occasion, having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of shoes with linings, when they have been cast off by others'. But new shoes with linings are not to be worn. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
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I. Now at that time the Blessed One walked up and down in the open air unshod. Noticing that, 'The Master walks unshod,' the Elders (the Thera Bhikkhus) also went unshod when they were walking up and down. But though the Master and the Thera Bhikkhus went unshod, the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus walked up and down with coverings on their feet.
This must be understood as spoken by the Buddha.
• Omukkan ti pafimuñkitvâ apanîtam (B.).
This walking up and down thinking is represented as a constant habit of the early Buddhist Samanas.
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