Mahavagga 8.25

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

MAHAVAGGA

EIGHTH KHANDHAKA (THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS)

Chapter-25.

1. Now at that time the venerable Upananda of the Sakya race, having spent the rainy season at Savatthi, went to take up his abode in a certain village. The Bhikkhus in that place assembled together with the object of dividing the robes. They said to him

'These robes, friend, which are the property of the Sangha, are about to be divided. Will you accept a share of them?'

'Yes, friends, I will,' said he; and taking his share, departed from there and took up his abode elsewhere.

[The same thing happened there, and] he departed from there and took up his abode elsewhere.

[The same thing happened there, and so] he returned to Savatthi with a great bundle of robes.

2. The Bhikkhus said to him: 'What a meritorious

of the robes be assigned to Upananda of the Sakya race?'

They told the matter to the Lord Buddha.

'Give, O Bhikkhus, to that foolish one but one portion. In case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu spend the rainy season alone in two residences, thinking thus to obtain many robes, then, if he have spent exactly half the season in one place and half in another, a half portion of the robes due to him shall be given to him in one place, and a half in the other; but in whichever place of the two he have spent a greater part of the rainy season, from there shall the portions of robes due to him be given.'