1. Now at that time a quantity of robes had come into the possession of a
certain Bhikkhu, and he was desirous of giving those robes to his father and
mother.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'Since they are his father and mother, what can we say, O Bhikkhus, though he
give them to them. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give (robes, in such a case,) to
your parents. And a gift of faith is not to be made of no avail. Whosoever shall
make it of no avail, he is guilty of a dukkata 2.'
Footnotes
232:2 Compare the 1st and 3rd Nissaggiyas, and above, VIII, 13, 8, as to the
rules concerning extra robes, and what is to be done with them.
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