Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 24: Not to cover the head 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, having dressed themselves, including their heads, in the upper robes, sat down amidst the houses … " …
‘Not muffled up will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not sit down muffled up amidst the houses. Whoever out of disrespect sits down amidst the houses, having dressed himself, including his head, in the upper robe, 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 sasīsaṃ pārupitvā antaraghare nisīdanti … pe … .
2 "na oguṇṭhito antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (24:169)
3 na oguṇṭhitena antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sasīsaṃ pārupitvā antaraghare nisīdati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, vāsūpagatassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.