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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IV, 15,5.
THE PAVÂRANÂ CEREMONY.
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let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following ñatti before the Samgha : “Let the Samgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. While people were offering gifts, the greater part of the night has passed away. If the Samgha performs Pavâranâ with the threefold formula, it will not have finished the Pavâranâ when day breaks. If the Samgha is ready, let the Samgha hold Pavârana with the twofold formula, or with the onefold formula, or by common declaration of all the Bhikkhus who have kept Vassa together.”
4. 'In case, O Bhikkhus, in a certain district on the day of Pavâranâ the greater part of the night has passed away while the Bhikkhus were in confusion : the Bhikkhus were reciting the Dhamma, those versed in the Suttantas were propounding the Suttantas, those versed in the Vinaya were discussing the Vinaya, the Dhamma preachers were talking about the Dhamma. Now if those Bhikkhus think : “The greater part of the night has passed away while the Bhikkhus were in confusion. If the Samgha performs Pavâranâ with the threefold formula, it will not have finished the Pavâranâ when day breaks,” let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following ñatti before the Samgha : "Let the Samgha, &c. The greater part of the night has passed away while the Bhikkhus were in confusion. If the Samgha performs Pavâraná (&c. as in § 3).”:
5. At that time in a certain district in the Kosala country a great assembly of Bhikkhus had come together on the day of Pavâranâ, and there was but a small place protected from rain, and a great cloud was in the sky. Now the Bhikkhus thought: A great assembly of Bhikkhus has come together
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