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VI, 5, 2.
requisite clothes, and food, and lodging, and medicine for the sick, all such Bhikkhus as superintended their work.
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KULLAVAGGA.
Now a certain poor tailor thought, 'This can be no every-day matter on which the people are so zealously engaged. Let me too set to work on a new building.' And that poor tailor himself kneaded the clay, and laid the bricks, and raised the walls. But by his want of experience the laying was out of line and the wall fell down. And a second and a third time he [repeated his work, and with the same result].
2. Then that poor tailor murmured, was annoyed, and became indignant, saying, ' These Sakyaputtiya Samanas exhort and teach those men who provide them with the requisite clothes, food, lodging, and medicine, and superintend their buildings for them. But I am poor, and no one exhorts or teaches me, or helps me in my building!'
The Bhikkhus heard him so murmuring, and told the matter to the Blessed One. Then the Blessed One on that occasion and in that connection made a religious discourse, and gave command to the Bhikkhus, saying, 'I permit you, O Bhikkhus, to give new buildings in course of erection (for the use of the Order) in charge (to a Bhikkhu who shall superintend1 the work). And the Bhikkhu who
buildings being in accordance with the rules of the Order as to size, form, and object of the various apartments.
The buildings referred to in this section are no doubt intended to be the same as those referred to in Kullavagga V, 13, 3.
1 Navakammam dâtum. For the works which ought not to be included, and for those which might be lawfully included in this term, see below, Kullavagga VI, 17. Hence the overseer is called navakammika.
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