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VIII, 30, 3.
'Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, after having spent the rainy season, and before a gift of robes has fallen to the Samgha, acknowledges that he has become mad, or unhinged in his mind, or in bodily pain, or that he has been suspended for refusal to acknowledge an offence he had committed, or to atone for such an offence, or to renounce a false doctrine-then (his portion of robes. is nevertheless) to be allotted to him if there be any person present proper to receive them on his behalf.
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MAHAVAGGA.
'Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu, after having spent the rainy season, and before a gift of robes has fallen to the Samgha, acknowledges that he is a eunuch, or that he had furtively attached himself to the Samgha, or that he had gone over to the Titthiyas, or that he is an animal, or that he had been guilty of matricide, or of parricide, or that he had murdered an Arahat, or that he had violated a Bhikkhunt, or that he had raised a schism in the Samgha, or that he had shed a Buddha's blood, or that he is a hermaphroditethen the Samgha becomes the owner (of the portion of robes that would have fallen to him).
3. [The same rules as in § 2, if he had gone away, &c., after the gift of robes had been made to the Samgha, but before the robes had been divided among the individual members of the Samgha belonging to the place where he had spent the rainy season.]
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4. Moreover in case, O Bhikkhus, after the Bhikkhus have spent the rainy season, divisions arise among the Samgha before any robes have fallen to them, and the people there give the water (of
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