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VIII, 1, 4.
4. The floor coverings1 should be dried in the sun, cleaned, beaten to get the dust out, taken back, and spread out again in the place to which they belonged2. The supports of the bed should be dried in the sun, dusted, taken back, and put in the place to which they belonged. The bed (mañka) and the chairs (pitha) should be aired in the sun, cleaned, beaten to get the dust out, turned upside down, taken back, carefully avoiding scratching them against the floor, or knocking them up against the door-posts, and then put in the place to which they belonged3. The bolsters and pillows, and the
KULLAVAGGA.
must have occurred, he thinks, in Pâli in the use of than for û had. The past participle thata occurs at Kullavagga VIII, 10, 3.
1 Bhummattharanam; usually, no doubt, matting of various kinds, but occasionally also skins or rugs of the kinds specially allowed by VI, 14, 2.
Yathâbhagam. The use of this word here constitutes the only variation between our passage and that in the Mahâvagga I, 25= below, VIII, 7, 2, where it is replaced by yathatthâne or yathâрaññattam.
This passage throws a welcome light on the meaning of manka and pîtha: for as they were to be beaten to get the dust out, it is clear that they were upholstered. The mañka, or bed, must have been a wooden framework, stuffed (probably with cotton), covered at the top with cotton cloth, and made underneath and at the sides of wood. It had no legs fixed to it, but was supported on movable tressels-the pa/ipâdakâ. When using it,
the sleeper covered it with a mat, or a cotton sheet, and had over him a coverlet of some kind; and these articles, which he would also use if he slept on the ground, constituted, together with the bolster and pillows, the senâsanam or bedding,—that is, in the more special and limited use of that term (as, for instance, above, § 3, and perhaps below, 7, 1). In its larger sense the same word is used, putting the part for the whole, for the whole sleeping apparatus, and is nearly equivalent to seyyâyo (so, for instance, in VI, 11 and 12, and below, VIII, 2, 1; 6, 2; and perhaps VIII, 7, 1; whereas the latter term is used in the same connection at VI, 6,
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