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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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THE MAHAVAGGA
FIFTH KHANDHAKA(RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, VEHICLES, ETC.)
Chapter-3 : Buddha Allows Old Shoes with Linings.
1. Now the Lord Buddha, having dressed early in the morning, went into Rajagaha, with bowl and robe, for alms, with a certain Bhikkhu as his companion. And that Bhikkhu followed limping step by step behind the Lord Buddha.
Now a certain lay-disciple who had put on a pair of shoes with many linings, saw the Lord Buddha approaching from afar. And when he saw him, he took off that pair of shoes and went up to the Lord Buddha, and saluted him; and went on to that Bhikkhu, and saluted him, and said:
2. 'Why does your reverence limp?'
My feet, friend, are blistered.'
'But here, Sir, are shoes.'
'Enough, good friend! shoes with linings have been forbidden by the Lord Buddha.'
'Take the shoes, O Bhikkhu!'
Then the Lord Buddha, on that occasion, having delivered a dhamma discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
I allow you, O Bhikkhus(Monks), the use of shoes with linings, when they have been cast off by others . But new shoes with linings are not to be worn. Whosoever does so, is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
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