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should be cut off. Here ; this is the size of Buddha's bauddha 

 robe— nine vidatthi long in Buddha's vidatthi., and six in width. 

 This is the size of Buddha's bauddha robe7' 



From a careful perusal of Buddha's edicts we find that, 

 where one matter or thing is stated in one set of words., the 

 same set of words is repeated, as in an old act of Parliament, 

 where the same matter or thing is again referred to. In the 

 edict before us, however, we have a deviation from this 

 principle of Buddhist composition. We have sugata civara 

 in the beginning, and sugatassa sugata civara twice repeated 

 afterwards. But, where vidatthi is mentioned sugata alone 

 occurs here as elsewhere, — shewing clearly an omission of 

 sugatassa before the first sugata; and shewing, moreover, 

 that a different meaning was intended by sugata when used 

 adjectively. If we render sucjata- civara as Buddha's robe, 

 we can assign no meaning to the word sugatassa which 

 precedes the expression. That word, moreover, is a noun 

 in the genitive case, and is not given as an attributive of 

 cicara y which sugata is. Taking then sugatassa to mean 

 " Buddha's," sugata which follows must have a different 

 meaning, and we perceive no reason whatever not to assign 

 to it the meaning of "the accepted," in the sense of the 

 "authorized robe," the robe approved by usage, or 



prescribed by rule. 



By supplying the supposed omission, winch, I must not 

 omit to state, is found in all the books, to which we could 

 gain access — and assigning to sugata the meaning of s approv- 

 ed,' or ' the imperial,' the Pali text may be translated, thus : 



"Should a priest cause to make a robe [exactly] to the dimen- 

 sions of Buddha's approved robe, or in excess, he shall be guilty 

 of pacittiya; and the excess [over the prescribed dimensions 1 ] shall 



1 We have supplied the words by reading the text in connection with 

 the following rule, which prescribes the dimensions of a priest's robe: 



