Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 3: To have the robe cover the neck and down to the wrists when sitting in inhabited areas.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, having uncovered their bodies, went amidst the houses.
‘Properly clad will I go amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should go amidst the houses properly clad. Whoever out of disrespect, having uncovered the body, goes amidst the houses, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
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 kāyaṃ vivaritvā antaraghare gacchanti … pe … .
2 "suppaṭicchanno antaraghare gamissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (3:148)
3 suppaṭicchannena antaraghare gantabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca kāyaṃ vivaritvā antaraghare gacchati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.