1. 7. Now when, O Bhikkhus, is the Kathina (that is to say, the privileges allowed after the Kathina ceremony) suspended?
'There are, O Bhikkhus, these eight grounds 1 for the suspension of the Kathina (privileges) 2--the ground depending on (the Bhikkhus) having gone away, on (his robe being ready) finished, on his resolve (not to have it finished), on (his robe) having been destroyed, on his having heard (of the general suspension of the privileges of the whole Samgha), on the lapse of expectation (that a special gift of a robe would be made to him), on his having gone beyond the boundary (of the Samgha to whom the Kathina was given), on the common suspension (of the Kathina privileges of the whole Samgha).
2. 1. 'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held 1, takes a robe ready for wear, and goes away, thinking, "I will come back."
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his having gone away.
'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away. And when he had got beyond the boundary he thinks, "I will have the robe made up here, and will never go back." And he gets the robe made up.
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his having a robe ready for wear.
A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away. And when he has got beyond the boundary he thinks, "I will neither have the robe made up, nor will I go back."
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his having so decided.
'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away. And when he has got beyond the boundary he chinks, "I will have the robe made up here, and will never go back." And he has the robe made up. And as the robe is being made up for him, it is spoilt.
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of the robe being so spoilt.
2. 'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, thinking, "I will come back." When he has got beyond the boundary he has that robe made up. When his robe has thus been made up he bears the news, "The Kathina, they say, has been suspended in that district 1."
''That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his having heard that news.
A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, thinking, "I will come back." And when he has got beyond the boundary he has that robe made up. And then, after it has been made up, he postpones his return until the (general) suspension of privileges has taken place.
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of his being beyond the boundary.
'A Bhikkhu, after the Kathina ceremony has been held, takes a robe and goes away, thinking, "I will come back." And when he has got beyond the boundary he has that robe made up. And then, when it has been made up, he postpones his return until the very moment when the (general) suspension of privileges takes place 1.
'That Bhikkhu's Kathina privileges are suspended on the ground of the common suspension (of the privileges of the whole Samgha).'
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End of the section entitled Âdâya-sattaka 2.
156:4 The new chapter should have begun here, and not with the next section as printed in the text.
157:1 Mâtikâ ’ti mâtaro ganettiyo ’ti attho(B.). So also in VIII, 14.
157:2 The discussion of these eight grounds of the suspension of the five Kathina privileges is closely connected with the description in the 13th chapter of the two so-called Palibodhas. Palibodha seems to mean the continued existence of a claim on the Bhikkhu's side to a share in the distribution of the Kathina. Two conditions are necessary to the validity of this claim; the first touching the Bhikkhu's domicile (âvâsa), the second the state of his wardrobe (kîvara). He must remain within the boundary (sîmâ) of the Samgha to whom the Kathina has been given; or if he has left it, then he must have the intention of returning, the animus revertendi. And secondly, he must be in actual want of robes. If either of these conditions fail, then the Bhikkhu is apalibodha in respect of the âvâsa or the kîvara respectively. If he is apalibodha in both respects, then there follows the suspension of the Kathina privileges, the kathin-uddhâra, or kathin-ubbhâra, so far as he is concerned.
So the eight grounds of the suspension of the privileges referred to in our present section (chap. 1. 7) either refer to the Bhikkhu's domicile or to the state of his robes, or to ways in which his case falls within the general suspension of privileges of the whole Samgha, Each of the eight cases is explained in detail in the following sections, except the sixth ground, which is specially treated of afterwards in chapters 8 and 9. See the note on the title at the end of this chapter, and compare further our note on the first Nissaggiya Pâkittiya.
158:1 Literally, 'whose Kathina has been spread out.'
159:1 In the table of contents (b. 266) sambhunâti is replaced by sambhoti. Abhisambhuneyyam occurs in Burnouf's 'Lotus,' &c., p. 313.
159:2 That is, 'the seven cases in which he takes a robe away.' The eighth case is explained below in chapters 8, 9.