Soon afterwards a number of monks who were traveling from Sāketa to Sāvatthī were robbed by bandits. Knowing that the Buddha had laid down this training rule and being afraid of wrongdoing, they did not ask for robes. As a consequence, they walked naked to Sāvatthī, where they bowed down to the monks. The monks there said, “These Ājīvaka ascetics are good people, as they bow down to the monks.” “We’re not Ājīvakas! We’re monks!” The monks asked Venerable Upāli to examine them. When the naked monks told him what had happened, Upāli said to the monks, “They are monks. Please give them robes.” The monks of few desires complained and criticized them, “How can monks go naked? Shouldn’t they have covered up with grass and leaves?”