If it is more than six days and he perceives it as more, and he is staying apart from it, then, except if the monks have agreed, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.

If it is more than six days, but he is unsure of it, and he is staying apart from it, then, except if the monks have agreed, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession. If it is more than six days, but he perceives it as less, and he is staying apart from it, then, except if the monks have agreed, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession. If the determination has not been given up, but he perceives that it has … If it has not been given away, but he perceives that it has … If it has not been lost, but he perceives that it has … If it has not been destroyed, but he perceives that it has … If it has not been burned, but he perceives that it has … If it has not been stolen, but he perceives that it has, and he is staying apart from it, then, except if the monks have agreed, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession. If he uses a robe that should be relinquished without first relinquishing it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it is less than six days, but he perceives it as more, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it is less than six days, but he is unsure of it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it is less than six days and he perceives it as less, there is no offense.

Non-offenses There is no offense:

if he stays apart from the robe for six days; if he stays apart from the robe for less than six days; if, after staying apart from it for six days, he stays overnight within the village zone and then leaves; if within the six days he gives up the determination, or the robe has been given away, lost, destroyed, burned, stolen, or taken on trust; if he has the permission of the monks; if he is insane; if he is the first offender. The training rule on storing a robe for more than six days in an inhabited area, the ninth, is finished.

Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law The Great Analysis The chapter on relinquishment The subchapter on almsbowls Diverting an offering intended for the Sangha

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