‘When his robe is finished and the robe season has ended, a monk should keep an extra robe for ten days at the most. If he keeps it longer than that, he commits an offense entailing relinquishment and confession.’”

Definitions When his robe is finished: the monk has made a robe; or the robe-cloth has been lost, destroyed, or burned; or his expectation of receiving further robe-cloth is disappointed. The robe season has ended: it has ended according to one of the eight key phrases or the Sangha has ended it. For ten days at the most: it should be kept ten days at a maximum. An extra robe: it has not been determined nor assigned to another. Robe: one of the six kinds of robe-cloth, but not smaller than what can be assigned to another.