Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c24.16

c24.16

**Hut.** At the bottom of the scale was the hut for the use of the solitary Bhikkhu, which was of the standard size measuring 12 spans (of the Buddha’s span) in length and 7 spans in breadth [*Pāt.*, p. 9]. It must also have an open space around it so as to allow a bullock cart to pass round it. Its site must also be approved by the Saṁgha as free from danger (“ either to living creatures by clearing the site or to the future resident after it is built”). We read of a Bhikkhu collecting by begging the materials for the construction of such a hut [ib.].