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ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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covered with cement and clay, for the use of the Samgha. And it occurred to the Bhikkhus, What kind of roof now has been allowed by the Blessed One, and what kind of roof has not been allowed ?"
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, roofing of five kinds—brick roofing, stone roofing, cement roofing, straw roofing, and roofing of leaves.'
End of the First Bhânavâra (or Portion for
Recitation)
1. Now at that time the householder Anatha Pindika was the husband of the sister of the Râga. gaha Setthi. And Anatha Pindika the householder went to Ragagaha on some business or other. Now at that time the Samgha, with the Buddha at its head, had been bidden by the Setthi of Rågagaha for the morrow's meal. And the Setthi of Rågagaha gave command to his slaves and work-people, saying, 'So get up at early morn, my men, and cook congey, and cook rice, and prepare curries, and prepare delicacies 11
book was written has not yet been precisely ascertained. In later times it meant a building of several storeys, each successive storey being smaller in superficial area than the one immediately beneath it. Compare the Maha-loha-påsåda so often mentioned in the Mahavamsa (pp. 161-257), the stone pillars of the lowest stories of which are still one of the sights of Anuradhapura.
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