Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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SAMGHÂDISESÂ DHAMMA.
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SAMGHÂDISESÂ DHAMMÂ.
RULES WHICH REQUIRE, AS WELL IN THEIR EARLIER
AS IN THEIR LATER STAGES, FORMAL MEETINGS OF THE ORDER 1.
Here, venerable Sirs, the thirteen matters, which, as well in their earlier as in their later stages, require formal meetings of the Order, come into recitation.
I. The emission of semen by design, except by a person sleeping, is a Samghâdisesa.
✓ 2. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, being degraded, shall, with perverted3 mind, come into bodily contact with a woman, by taking hold of her hand, or by taking hold of her hair, or by touching any part of her body— that is a Samghâdisesa.
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3. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, being degraded, shall, with perverted mind, address a woman with wicked words, exciting to passion as those of a young man to a maid-that is a Samghâdisesa*.
1 The expression is curious, but the authorities given by Childers (sub voce) are decisive as to its meaning. Whereas the Pârâgika offences were dealt with in one meeting of the Order, these thirteen offences gave rise to the various Samghakammas (formal resolutions or proceedings at meetings of the Order), which are explained in detail in the third Khandhaka of the Kullavagga.
The text of, and the ancient commentary on this portion of the Pâtimokkha will be found in the Vibhanga in the Book on the Samghâdisesas.
* Otinno, literally, 'having gone down,' which the old commentator in the Vibhanga explains as 'lustfully, or with a mind bound by desire.' Our word 'degraded' has often a very similar connotation.
3 Viparinatena, literally, 'changed;' here 'changed for the worse.' Compare Mahâ-sudassana Sutta II, 39, and the Old Comment at Minayeff, p. 64.
* Compare the second Aniyata.
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