Chapter 4

p. 73

4.

1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to wear woollen cloth with long fleece to it ¹.

The people murmured . . . (&c., down to) They told this matter to the Blessed One.

'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to wear woollen cloth with long fleece to it. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'

Footnotes

73:1 Bâhira-lomim-unnim. Literally, 'with the fleece outside.' Compare Mahâvagga V, 10, 4, and the Magghima Sîla, § 5 (p. 193 of Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas').