Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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IV, 9.
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
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to settle the disputed question (that was brought before them).
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
"I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to settle such a dispute by the vote of the majority. A Bhikkhu who shall be possessed of five qualifications shall be appointed as taker of the voting tickets-one who does not walk in partiality, one who does not walk in malice, one who does not walk in folly, one who does not walk in fear?, one who knows what (votes) have been taken and what have not been taken. * And thus shall he be appointed.
First the Bhikkhu is to be requested (whether he will undertake the office). Then some able and discreet Bhikkhu is to bring the matter before the Samgha, saying,
""Let the venerable Samgha hear me. If the time seems meet to the Samgha, let the Samgha appoint a Bhikkhu of such and such a name as taker of the voting tickets.
““ This is the motion (ñatti).
““Let the venerable Samgha hear me. The Samgha appoints a Bhikkhu of such and such a name as taker of the tickets. Whosoever of the .venerable ones approves of the Bhikkhu of such and such a name being appointed as taker of the
* From here to the end of the chapter recurs in IV, 14, 24.
· These are the qualifications always ascribed to one who rightly fills any judicial offence, and are called the four Agatis. They are the especial attributes of a good king sitting as judge, and are mentioned elsewhere (Samghâdisesa XIII; Mahavagga VIII, 5, 2; VIII, 6, 1; and. below, VI, 11, 2) of other officials of the order with duties similar to those in the text.
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