Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 10: Not to lift the robes when going to inhabited areas.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks lifting up (their robes) sat down amidst the houses … " …
‘Not lifting up (the robes) will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not sit down among the houses with (the robes) lifted up. Whoever out of disrespect having lifted up (the robe) on one side or on both, sits down amidst the houses, there is an offence of wrongdoing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional, if he is not thinking, if he does not know, if he is ill, if he has gone into residence for the rains, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū ukkhittakāya antaraghare nisīdanti … pe … .
2 "na ukkhittakāya antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (10:155)
3 na ukkhittakāya antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca ekato vā ubhato vā ukkhipitvā antaraghare nisīdati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, vāsūpagatassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.