Chapter 16

p. 226

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 ¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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 ², did not protect the whole of the sleeping-place.

'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have a covering made as large as you like.'

Footnotes

226:1 The remainder of this introductory story scarcely bears translation. The first sentences recur in the Sutta-vibhaṅga, Samghâdisesa I, 2, I, and Pâkittiya V, 1, I.

226:2 The length of a mat (nisîdanam) was limited by the 89th Pâkittiya to two spans by one.