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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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MAHAVAGGA
EIGHTH KHANDHAKA (THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS)
Chapter-16.
1, 2. Now at that time Bhikkhus who had eaten sweet foods went to sleep unmindful and unthoughtful. And they who had thus gone to sleep, dreamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 'I allow, O Bhikkhus, for the protection of the body, and of the robe, and of the sleeping-place, the use of a mat.'
4. Now at that time the mat, being too short, did not protect the whole of the sleeping-place.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have a covering made as large as you like.'
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