When they heard about this, monks received haste-cloths and stored them beyond the robe season, keeping them in bundles on a bamboo robe rack. While walking about the dwellings, Venerable Ānanda saw those cloths, and he asked the monks, “Whose cloths are these?” “They’re our haste-cloths.” “But how long have you stored them?” They told him. Ānanda then complained and criticized them, “How could these monks receive haste-cloths and then store them beyond the robe season?” After rebuking those monks in many ways, Ānanda told the Buddha. Soon afterwards he had the Sangha gathered and questioned the monks: “Is it true, monks, that there are monks who do this?” “It’s true, sir.” The Buddha rebuked them … “How could those foolish men do this? This will affect people’s confidence …” … “And, monks, this training rule should be recited like this:

Final ruling ‘When there are ten days left to the Kattika full moon that ends the first rainy-season residence and a haste-cloth is given to a monk, he may receive it if he regards it as urgent. He may then store it until the end of the robe season.

If he stores it beyond that, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.’”

Definitions There are ten days left: the invitation ceremony is ten days in the future. The Kattika full moon that ends the first rainy-season residence: the Kattika full moon of the invitation ceremony is what is meant.