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KULLAVAGGA.
VIII, 2, 1.
night: if it is hot weather, they should be closed by day, and opened by night.
1. If the cell, or the store-room, or the refectory, or the room where the fire is kept, or the privy, is covered with dust, it should be swept out. If there is no drinking-water, or water for washing, they should be provided. If there is no water in the rinsing-pot?, water should be poured into it.
This, O Bhikkhus, is the rule of conduct for incoming Bhikkhus, according to which they ought to behave.'
1. Now at that time resident Bhikkhus, on seeing incoming Bhikkhus, did not prepare seats for them, nor provide water and footstools and towels for them to wash their feet, nor go to meet them and take charge of their bowls and their robes, nor ask them whether they wanted drinking-water, nor salute such of the incoming Bhikkhus as were their seniors, nor make beds ready for them.
The moderate Bhikkhus murmured, &c., and told the matter to the Blessed One, &c., (down to) he said to the Bhikkhus : 'Therefore, O Bhikkhus,
The following paragraph is the same as Mahavagga I, 25, 19, and part of it is repeated below, VIII, 10, 3.
? A ka mana-kumbhi. This formed part of the sanitary apparatus for use in the privy. See above, Mahâvagga V, 8, 3, and below, Kullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.
* All the above expressions are used at the opening of Mahâvagga IX.
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