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BOOK 11, LECTURE 5, LESSON 1.
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FIFTH LECTURE,
CALLED
BEGGING OF CLOTHES?.
First LESSON. A monk or a nun wanting to get clothes, may beg for cloth made of wool, silk, hemp, palm-leaves, cotton, or Arkatala, or such-like clothes. If he be a youthful, young, strong, healthy, well-set monk, he may wear one robe, not two; if a nun, she should possess four raiments, one two cubits broad, two three cubits broad, one four cubits broad. If one does not receive such pieces of cloth, one should afterwards sew together one with the other. (1)
A monk or a nun should not resolve to go further than half a yogana to get clothes. As regards the acceptance of clothes, those precepts which have been given in the (First Lesson of the First Lecture, called) Begging of Food , concerning one fellowascetic, should be repeated here; also concerning many fellow-ascetics, one female fellow-ascetic, many female fellow-ascetics, many Sramanas and Brâhmanas; also about (clothes) appropriated by another person (2)
A monk or a nun should not accept clothes which the layman, for the mendicant's sake, has bought,
1 Vatthesana.
* The first to wear in the cloister, the second and third for outof-door, the fourth for assemblies. • See II, 1, 1, $11.
* See II, 1, 1, $ 13.
