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PÂTIMOKKHA.
ANIYATÂ DHAMMÂ1. RULES REGARDING UNDETERMINED MATTERS. Here, venerable Sirs, the two Rules regarding undetermined matters come into recitation. V 1. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall take a seat with
a woman, one man with one woman, in secret, on a secluded seat, suitable? (for sexual intercourse); and if a believing woman, trustworthy of speech, who has seen (them so), shall lay it to his charge under one or other of three Rules, either under the Pârâgika), or under the Samghâdisesa“, or under the Pakittiya • Rules :—let then that Bhikkhu, if he acknowledge that he has so sat, be dealt with (according to the circumstances reported) for a Pârâgika, or for a Samghâdisesa, or for a Pakittiya ; or let that Bhikkhu be dealt with under that one of those three Rules under which the believing woman, trustworthy in speech, shall lay it to his charge.
This rule relates to a matter undetermined.
2. And furthermore, even if the seat be not secluded, and not convenient (for sexual intercourse), but be convenient for addressing a woman with wicked words 6, then whatsoever Bhikkhu shall take
1 The whole of the following portion of the Pâtimokkha, together with the Old Commentary on it, recurs in the Vibhanga, Book III.
* Alamkammaniye, an expression found only in this passage. The Vibhanga interprets it as above (Aniyata I, 2, 1). 8 The ist Pârâgika.
The 2nd Samghadisesa. * Pâkittiya 44, 45; and compare also 7, 27.
• Compare the 3rd Samghâdisesa, and probably the 4th is also referred to.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| 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 |