the Buddha said to them, “I hope you’re keeping well, monks, I hope you’re getting by? I hope you had a comfortable rains, that you lived together in peace and harmony, and got almsfood without trouble?” “We’re keeping well, sir, we’re getting by. We had a comfortable rains, lived together in peace and harmony, and had no trouble getting almsfood.” They told the Buddha what had happened during the rains and while traveling to Sāvatthī.

Soon afterwards the Buddha gave a teaching and addressed the monks: “I allow monks who have completed the rainy-season residence to participate in a robe-making ceremony. Once you have participated in the robe-making ceremony, five things are allowable for you: going without informing, going without taking, eating in a group, as much robe-cloth as you need, and whatever robe-cloth is given there is for you. And the robe-making ceremony should be performed like this.

A competent and capable monk should inform the Sangha: ‘Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. This cloth has been given to the Sangha for the robe-making ceremony. If the Sangha is ready, it should give this cloth to monk so-and-so to perform the robe-making ceremony. This is the motion.