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V, 7, 1. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, ETC. 21
on the world; disasters by sea; things which are, and things which are not '. And so doing they both trod upon and slew all kinds of insects, and disturbed the Bhikkhus in their meditations.
4. The moderate Bhikkhus were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'How can the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus [do so]?'
And those Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Is it true' (&c., comp. chap. 4. 2)?
'It is true, Lord.'
He rebuked them, and having delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'Wooden shoes, O Bhikkhus, are not to be worn. Whosoever wears them, is guilty of a dukkata
offence.'
7.
1. Now when the Blessed One had remained at Ragagaha as long as he thought fit, he set out on his journey towards Benares. And wandering from place to place, he came to Benares, and there at Benares the Blessed One stayed in the deer-park Isipatana.
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus, since the Blessed One had forbidden wooden shoes, used to break off young palmyra palms, and wear shoes made of the talipat leaves 2. The young palmyra plants withered. People were annoyed, murmured, and became angry, saying, 'How can
1 This list recurs in the Magghima Sila, § 7 (Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas from the Pâli,' p. 194).
2 These are the leaves on which the MSS. are written.
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