Chulavagga 6.12

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

SIXTH KHANDHAKA (ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE)

Chapter-12.

1. Now the venerable Upananda the Sakyan, after having had a lodging allotted to him in

Savatthi, went to a certain country-place where a community of the Sangha resided, and there also had a lodging allotted to him. Then the Bhikkhus there thought, 'Now this brother, Upananda the Sakyan, is a maker of strife, quarrelsome, a maker of disputes, given to idle talk, a raiser of legal questions in the Sangha. If he should spend the rainy season here, then shall we all dwell in discomfort. Come, let us question him.' And they asked the venerable Upananda the Sakyan:

'Have not you, friend Upananda, had a lodging allotted to you in Savatthi?'

That is so, Sirs.'

'What then do you, friend Upananda, being one, yet take exclusive possession of two (lodging-places)?'

'Well, I do now, Sirs, set (the lodging) here free, and take the one there.'

Those Bhikkhus who were moderate murmured, &c., and they told the matter to the Lord Buddha. Then the Lord Buddha, on that occasion and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-sangha, and asked the venerable Upananda the Sakyan:

'Is it true, Upananda, that you, being one, have taken possession of two places?'

'It is true, Lord.'

Then the Lord Buddha rebuked him, saying, 'How can you, O foolish one, do such a thing? What you took there, O foolish one, has been lost here; what you took here, has been lost there. Thus, O foolish one, you are deprived of both.' And when he had delivered a dhamma discourse, he said to the Bhikkhus:

'One man is not, O Bhikkhus, to take two lodging-places. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'