[283] Now at that time the Venerable Upananda the Sakyan (Upanando Sakyaputto), having taken a lodging (senāsana) in Sāvatthī, went to a certain village monastery, and there too he took a lodging. Then those bhikkhus thought: "Friends, this Venerable Upananda the Sakyan is a maker of strife, a maker of quarrels, a maker of disputes, a maker of contentious talk, a maker of legal issues (adhikaraṇa) in the Saṅgha. If he spends the rains here, all of us will not live comfortably. Come, let us question him." Then those bhikkhus said this to the Venerable Upananda the Sakyan: "Friend Upananda, was not a lodging taken by you in Sāvatthī?"
"Even so, friends."
"But how is it, friend Upananda, that you, being one, reserve two?"
"Now, friends, I relinquish this one here and take that one there."
Those bhikkhus who were of few wishes, contented … murmured, complained, and spread it about: "How can the Venerable Upananda the Sakyan, being one, reserve two?" They reported this matter to the Blessed One … "Is it true, Upananda, as they say, that you, being one, reserve two?"
"It is true, Blessed One."
The Buddha, the Blessed One, rebuked him: "How can you, foolish man, being one, reserve two? What was taken by you there, foolish man, is relinquished here; what was taken here is relinquished there. Thus, foolish man, you are left outside in both places. This, foolish man, is not for the confidence of those without confidence …" Having rebuked him and given a talk on the Dhamma, he addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus, two [lodgings] should not be reserved by one; whoever should reserve [them] commits an offense of wrong-doing (dukkaṭa)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.