Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 8, Chapter 18
1. Now Visākhā the mother of Migāra took a cloth for wiping the face, and went up to the place where the Blessed One was. And on arriving there, she saluted the Blessed One, and took her seat on one side, and, so sitting, Visākhā the mother of Migāra spake thus to the Blessed One:
'May the Blessed One be pleased to accept of me this cloth for wiping the face, that that may be to me for a long time for a blessing and for good.'
And the Blessed One accepted the cloth for wiping the face. And he taught, and incited, and aroused, and gladdened Visākhā the mother of Migāra with religious discourse. And she, so taught &c., rose from her seat, and saluted the Blessed One, and passing him on her right side, she departed thence.
Then the Blessed One on that occasion, after having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, a cloth to wipe your faces with.'