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NISSAGGIYÂ PÂKITTIVÂ DHAMMĀ.
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2. When the robes have been settled, after the taking up of the Kathina by the Bhikkhu, if a Bhikkhu be without his three robes, even for a single night, unless with the permission of the Bhikkhus — that is a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture!
by the formal 'taking up of the store of robes' (Kathinuddhâra or Kathinassa ubbhâra);—and with it that Bhikkhu's claim to a share in the common store. These eight reasons are merely eight ways in which that particular Bhikkhu's wants are already amply supplied; and the necessity, in his case, for a relaxation of the rules no longer exists.
One of these reasons is that his set of robes is settled or done for (kivaram nitthitam); which, according to the old commentator on our rule here, means that his set has been made, or spoiled, or destroyed, or burnt, or that his hope of receiving one from the laity has been disappointed (nitthitakivarasmin ti kîvaram katam vâ hoti nattham vâ vinattham vâ daddham vâ kîvarâsâ vâ upakkhinnâ, according to which the Scholion in Dickson's note must be corrected). In each of these cases his wants are already supplied by the set of robes he has retained for wear during the process of drying : only the case of those Bhikkhus remains to be settled who have not had new robes made, and whose old ones were still good enough to wear during that process.
After the Kathinuddhâra, either particular or general, no Bhikkhu can retain for his own use an atireka-kivara, a spare robe. He must give it up to any brother who has need of it.
As to the ten days,' the Sutta Vibhanga has the following story. Ânanda, after the Kathinuddhâra, has a spare robe. He wants to give it to Sâriputta; but the latter is in Saketa, and is not expected back till the ninth or tenth day. So the Buddha, to meet such cases, establishes the rule that the spare robe may be kept up to the tenth day.
The words 'a Pâkittiya offence involving forfeiture,' repeated at the end of each of the Nissaggiyas, are intended to mean that that offence involves, firstly, all that a Pâkittiya involves; and secondly, forfeiture,
1 To this Rule there is the following story in the Sutta Vibhanga. Certain Bhikkhus left their robes in charge of the other Bhikkhus,
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