Please invite him as well.” The senior monks thought, “Where should we recite the Teaching and the Monastic Law?” It occurred to them, “Rājagaha has much almsfood and many dwellings. Let’s spend the rainy season there in order to recite the Teaching and the Monastic Law. No other monks should enter the rainy-season residence at Rājagaha.” And Venerable Mahākassapa informed the Sangha: “Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. If the Sangha is ready, it should appoint these five hundred monks to spend the rainy season at Rājagaha in order to recite the Teaching and the Monastic Law. No other monks should enter the rainy-season residence at Rājagaha.