Mahavagga 8.18

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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-18.

1. Now Visakha the mother of Migara took a cloth for wiping the face, and went up to the place where the Lord Buddha was. And on arriving there, she saluted the Lord Buddha, and took her seat on one side, and, so sitting, Visakha the mother of Migara spoke thus to the Lord Buddha:

'May the Lord Buddha be pleased to accept of me this cloth for wiping the face, that that may be to me for a long time for a blessing and for good.'

And the Lord Buddha accepted the cloth for wiping the face. And he taught, and encouraged, and roused, and gladdened Visakha the mother of Migara with dhamma discourse. And she, so taught &c., rose from her seat, and saluted the

Lord Buddha, and passing him on her right side, she departed from there.

Then the Lord Buddha on that occasion, after having delivered a dhamma discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:

'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a cloth to wipe your faces with.'