四分律比丘戒本 1.p51

1.p51

If a king, or chief minister, or a Brahman (or) a householder, or a householder s wife, send to a particular monk a messenger with a present of money for the purchase of cloth, and if the messenger come to the monk and say, “Venerable sir, will you receive from me at once the purchase money for a robe, with which I am entrusted for you?” and the monk reply, “It is allowable for me to procure for myself a robe, at the proper time, then we receive consecrated (cloth),” to which the messenger rejoins: “Venerable Sir! have you any man of business here?” and the monk says: “yes,” whether it be somebody belonging to the monk’s garden, or a upāsaka (layman), who is accustomed to look after the secular affairs of the monks; and in consequence the messenger go to the place where such a person lives, and having entrusted the money to his care, come back to the presence of the monk and say: “Venerable Sir, I have given the money for purchasing a robe into the hands of such and such a person whom you named; Venerable Sir! at the right time go to him, and you shall receive the robe you require.” That monk needing a robe may go two or three times to the place of his trustee to remind him of his necessity, and if he procure the robe, well and good! but if not, he may go a fourth, fifth and sixth time, and stand silently before him, and then go away. If this causes the man to recollect his debt, well and good! but if the monk does not even thus procure the robe, and go back after this to the man to try to get it this is nissaggiya pācittiya. If he do not obtain the robe, he may either go himself, or send a messenger to the place whence the gift came and say: “The money which you sent some time ago as a present for the purchase of a robe for a particular monk, and which you entrusted to the care of such and such a person, has not been used for the benefit of the monk in question, you should go back and take it therefore, lest it be lost.” Such is the rule.