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KULLAVAGGA.
V, 29, I.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of a loom, and of shuttles, strings, tickets, and all the apparatus belonging to a loom.'
29.
I. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu entered the village for alms without a girdle on, and in the highway1 his waist-cloth fell down 2. The people made an outcry, and that Bhikkhu was abashed.
On his return to the Arâma, that Bhikkhu told this matter to the Bhikkhus, and the Bhikkhus told it to the Blessed One.
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to enter the village without a girdle on. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow, O Bhikkhus, a girdle ".'
2. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus wore (&c., as usual, ending with)
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear special girdles those made of many strings plaited to
1 Rathiyâya. The Old Commentary on the Bhikkhunîvibhanga, Pâkittiya XIV, says, Rathiyâ ti rakkhâ. The word recurs, ibid., Pâkittiya LXXXVI, XCVI (the last of which is nearly the same as our passage here). For the more usual form rathika, see Kullavagga X, 12.
Pabhassittha. Compare Sutta-vibhanga, Pâkittiya LXXXIII, I, 2. It is from the root bhrams, not bhâs.
The use of this has already been enjoined at Mahâvagga I, 25, 9, 10. It was to be tied on round the waist, over the waist-cloth, to keep it in its place.
It is curious that kafi-suttakam, a kind of girdle which would seem properly to belong here, has been included in a former list of forbidden articles at V, 2, 1.
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