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VI, 2, 6.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to pierce the sides of the bedstead, and thus to weave the string across and across 1.'
A cloth had come into their possession. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to use it as a carpet ?'
A mattress stuffed with cotton 3 had come into their possession,
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to comb out the cotton, and make the cotton up into pillows + if it be of any of these three kinds-cotton produced on trees, cotton produced on creepers, cotton produced from Potaki-grass.
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus made use of pillows half the size of a man's body.
People who came on a visit to the Vihâras murmured, &c., on seeing this, saying, “Like those who still enjoy the pleasures of the world.'
* Althapadakam vetum. Buddhaghosa says nothing, either here or at Mahâvagga VIII, 21, where the word also occurs. Althapada-tthâpana at Gâtaka II, 5, 14, is a mode of dressing the hair, probably in broad plaits crossing each other so as to resemble the squares of a chessboard.
Or.rug.' Kilimika ti nama parikammakatâya bhâmiyâ khavi-samrakkhanatthâya attharanam vukkati (B.). It is probably the same word as, or connected with, kimilikâ, used by Buddhaghosa in note 5 on Mahâvagga VII, 1, 5, and explained
87, line 5) as tâla-pannâdihi katâ. Both words are possibly diminutives of kola, and it is not improbable that the reading should be kilimikâ in both cases, as Buddhaghosa so spells the word again in his note below on VI, 2, 7.
& TQlika. This is undoubtedly what is meant to be forbidden in § 5 of the Magghima Sila, although Grimblot, Sept Suttas Palis,' p. 9, reads kulikam. See Mahavagga V, 10, 4.
* Compare IV, 4, 4, VIII, 1, 3, where such pillows are mentioned among the ordinary belongings of a Vihara. The present rule is repeated below in VI, 14.
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