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KULLAVAGGA.
XI, 1, 15.
Of those, great king, we shall make dusters.' "And what do you intend to do, Ânanda, with the old dusters ?'
'Those, great king, we shall tear in shreds, and beat up with mud, and use them for making flooring of clay.
Then king Udena thought : ‘These Sakyaputtiya Samanas make general use of everything in a conscientious way, and take nothing as one man's peculiar property?' And he presented other five hundred pieces of cloth to the venerable Ananda.
15. But Ânanda went on to the Ghosita Årâma, and sat down then on the seat spread out for him. And the venerable Khanna went to the place where he was and saluted him, and took his seat beside him. And when he was so seated, Ânanda said to him: .
*The Samgha, friend Khanna, has imposed upon you the higher penalty.'
What then, friend Ananda, is the higher penalty?'
You, friend Khanna, may say to the Bhikkhus whatever you wish ; but the Bhikkhus are neither to speak to you, nor exhort you, nor admonish
you.'
Shall I not be even a slain man, friend Ânanda, so long as I am neither spoken to, nor exhorted, nor admonished by the Bhikkhus?' said Khanna, and he fainted and fell. · Then the venerable Khanna, pained, grieved, and seized with remorse through the higher penalty, remained alone and separate, earnest, zealous, and resolved. And ere long he attained to that supreme
1 Na kula vam gamenti, on which Buddhaghosa says nothing.
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