僧羯磨 3.93

3.93

Procedure for Granting the Making of a New Bedding. (At that time, there was a bhikṣu suffering from consumption who had rag bedding that was exceedingly heavy. He thought to himself: 'The World-Honoured One instituted a precept that upon making a new bedding one must keep it for six years; if less than six years, and without abandoning the old bedding, one makes another new one, it is a niḥsargika-prāyaścittika. Now I suffer from consumption, and this bedding is heavy; I am unable to carry it along.' The Buddha said: 'I permit the saṃgha to perform a jñaptidvitīya-karman for that bhikṣu.' He should go into the midst of the saṃgha, fully observe the etiquette, and make the request thus:)