but I’m here by myself. Now these people have given robe-cloth, intending it for the Sangha. Let me take it to Sāvatthī.” He then took that robe-cloth to Sāvatthī and told the Buddha what had happened. The Buddha said, “This robe-cloth is yours until the end of the robe season. It may be that a monk spends the rainy season by himself, yet people give him robe-cloth, intending it for the Sangha. That robe-cloth is his until the end of the robe season.” At one time a certain monk was living by himself outside the rainy season.