Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 8, Chapter 7
At that time the Bhikkhus appointed to lay the robes by, laid the robes by in an open hall, or at the foot of a tree, or in the hollow of a Nimba tree[1]; thus they were eaten by rats and white ants.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that you appoint what the Saṃgha chooses, a Vihāra, or an Aḍḍhayoga[2], or a storied building, or an attic, or a cave, to be the store-room[3] (of the Saṃgha).
'And you ought, O Bhikkhus, to appoint it in this way: Let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following ñatti before the Saṃgha: "Let the Saṃgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. If the Saṃgha is ready, let the Saṃgha appoint the Vihāra called N. N, to be the store-room (of the Saṃgha), (&c., the usual formula of a ñaattidutiya kamma)."'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Compare III, 12, 5.
[2]:
Compare I, 30, 4.
[3]:
The word bhaṇḍāgāra does not imply any special reference to robes more than to any other articles belonging to the Saṃgha. A good many things which were usually kept in the bhaṇḍāgāra are mentioned at Cullav. VI, 21, 3.