[127] Summary verses (uddāna):
Thirty bhikkhus of Pāṭheyya dwelt at Sāketa filled with longing;
having completed the rains, with robes drenched with water, they came to behold the Conqueror.
This is the origin-story of the kaṭhina; and the five (privileges) shall be allowable:
going without taking leave, going without the (full set of) robes,
likewise the group meal, and (keeping robes) as much as needed,
and (whatever) robe-material arises shall belong to those who have spread (the kaṭhina).
The motion (ñatti); thus it is spread, and thus it is not spread:
(not) merely by marking, by washing, by planning, by cutting,
by tacking, by making a hem, by making a binding,
by strengthening-work, by adding the border, by adding the facing,
by patching, by kneading (in dye), by making a sign, by roundabout talk,
with borrowed cloth, with cloth stored (overnight), with cloth subject to forfeiture,
with cloth not made allowable; not except those three (robes),
not except (a robe of) five (panels) or more, cut and furnished with the circles,
not except through (the spreading by) an individual; (if, though) rightly (done),
one standing outside the boundary (sīmā) gives approval —
the kaṭhina is not spread: thus it was taught by the Buddha.
With cloth new or nearly new, with cast-off cloth, with rag-cloth and shop-remnant cloth,
without sign-making, without roundabout talk,
not borrowed, not stored, not subject to forfeiture,
when made allowable, likewise with (one of) the three robes,
with five (panels) or more, cut and furnished with the circles,
through the spreading by an individual, rightly (done),
(when) one standing within the boundary approves —
such is the spreading of the kaṭhina.
Eight are the matrices for its withdrawal:
ending with departure, completion, resolution, destruction (of the cloth),
hearing (the news), the cutting-off of expectation,
(passing beyond) the boundary — with joint withdrawal as the eighth.
Taking a finished robe he goes, (thinking) 'I shall not return':
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina is determined by departure.
Taking a robe he goes; outside the boundary he thinks here,
'I shall have it made; I shall not return': the withdrawal of the kaṭhina is at completion.
Taking (it) outside the boundary, (resolved) 'neither (shall I have it made),'
minded 'I shall not return':
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina would be determined by resolution.
Taking a robe he goes; outside the boundary he thinks here,
'I shall have it made; I shall not return'; while it is being made, it is destroyed:
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina is determined by destruction.
Taking (it) he goes, (thinking) 'I shall return'; outside he has the robe made;
the robe finished, he hears: 'The kaṭhina has been withdrawn there':
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina is determined by hearing.
Taking (it) he goes, (thinking) 'I shall return'; outside he has the robe made;
the robe finished, outside (the boundary) he lets the withdrawal of the kaṭhina go by:
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina would be determined by passing beyond the boundary.
Taking (it) he goes, (thinking) 'I shall return'; outside he has the robe made;
the robe finished, (thinking) 'I shall return,' he arrives in time for the withdrawal of the kaṭhina:
for him that withdrawal of the kaṭhina arises together with the bhikkhus.
Of 'taking' and of 'taking along' there are seven and seven modes;
in the (two) sixes concerning the unfinished (robe) there is no course ending with departure.
Taking (cloth) gone outside the boundary, (the thought) 'I shall have it made' arises:
completion, resolution, and destruction — these three.
Taking (it, thinking) 'I shall not return,' (then) 'I shall make it outside the boundary':
completion, resolution too, destruction too — these three.
With (mind) undetermined, for him likewise the three methods as below.
Taking (it) he goes, (thinking) 'I shall return,' 'I shall make it outside the boundary,'
(then) 'I shall not return,' and has it made: at completion the withdrawal of the kaṭhina;
resolution, destruction, hearing, passing beyond the boundary,
and it may arise together with the bhikkhus: thus the courses are fifteen.
'Taking along,' 'the unfinished,' and 'taking along again' likewise —
these four sections all have fifteen modes.
Without expectation, with expectation, and with business (to be done) — those three:
one should understand it by method — three (sets), twelve and twelve.
For one merely awaiting (a share of robes) — therein the five modes of comfort;
obstructions and non-obstructions: the summary has been made according to method.
THE CHAPTER ON ROBES (CĪVARAKKHANDHAKA)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.