1, 2. Now at that time Bhikkhus who had eaten sweet foods went to sleep unmindful and unthoughtful. And they who had thus gone to sleep, dreamed 1......................
3 'I allow, O Bhikkhus, for the protection of the body, and of the robe, and of the sleeping-place, the use of a mat.'
4. Now at that time the mat, being too short 2, did not protect the whole of the sleeping-place.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to have a covering made as large as you like.'
Footnotes
226:1 The remainder of this introductory story scarcely bears translation. The first sentences recur in the Sutta-vibhaga, Sa"m"ghdisesa I, 2, I, and P"k"ittiya V, 1, I.
226:2 The length of a mat (nisdana"m") was limited by the 89th P"k"ittiya to two spans by one.