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II, 36, 4. UPOSATHA CEREMONY, AND PÂTIMOKKHA. 297
4. Let no one, O Bhikkhus, hold Uposatha by (accepting) the pârisuddhi declaration1 of a pârivâsika, except if the assembly has not yet risen (at the time when the pârisuddhi is declared). And let no one, O Bhikkhus, hold Uposatha on another day than the Uposatha day, except for the sake of (declaring the re-establishment of) concord among the Samgha 3.'
End of the third Bhânavâra in the Uposathakhandhaka.
1 See chap. 22.
2 I. e. a Bhikkhu subject to the penal discipline of parivâsa, the rules of which are discussed at length in the second and third books of the Kullavagga.
If a schism among the fraternity has been composed, the reconciled parties hold Uposatha together (X, 5, 14).
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