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VI, 17, 3.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE.
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building belonging to the Samgha kept exclusive possession of it-or the Bhikkhus gave work in charge to one not at that time within the boundary -or Bhikkhus who had once taken charge kept exclusive possession for all time.
They told (each of these matters to the Blessed One.
You are not, O Bhikkhus, to do [any one of these things] Whosoever does, he is guilty of a dukkata. And the Bhikkhu in charge may take one good sleeping-place into his exclusive possession for the three months of the rainy, but not during the dry season.'
3. Now at that time Bhikkhus who had taken charge of building operations left the place (or otherwise became incompetent in one or other of the twenty and three ways set out in the next paragraph 2).
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'In case that occurs, O Bhikkhus, as soon as he has taken charge, or before the building has been completed, let the office be given to another lest there should be loss to the Samgha. In case the building has been completed, O Bhikkhus, if he then leaves the place, it (the office and its privileges) is still his—if he then returns to the world, or dies, or admits that he is a sâmanera, or that he has abandoned the precepts, or that he has become guilty of an extreme offence, the Samgha
See above, VI, 11, 3. * See Mahavagga II, 22, 3, and II, 36, 1-3. In the latter of these two passages the three cases are omitted. In Mahavagga IX, 4, 2, and 8, the whole 23 are given,
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