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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MAHÂVAGGA.
IX, 3, 4.
kammavâkâs and does not propose a ñatti, such an act is unlawful.
4. 'If one performs, O Bhikkhus, a ñattikatuttha act with one ñatti and does not proclaim a kammavâkâ, such an act is unlawful. If one performs, O Bhikkhus, a ñattikatuttha act with two (.... three, .... four) wattis and does not proclaim a kammavaka, such an act is unlawful. If one performs, O Bhikkhus, a ñattikatuttha act with one kam mavâka (.... with two, .... three, .... four kammavâkâs) and does not propose a ñatti, such an act is unlawful. Such acts, O Bhikkhus, are called unlawful acts.
5. 'And which, O Bhikkhus, is an act of an incomplete congregation ?
If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattidutiya act not all Bhikkhus, as many as are entitled to vote, are present, if the khanda' of those who have to declare their khanda has not been conveyed (to the assembly), and if the Bhikkhus present protest, such an act is performed by an incomplete congregation.
'If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattidutiya act as many Bhikkhus as are entitled to vote, are present, but if the khanda of those who have to declare their khanda has not been conveyed (to the assembly), and if the Bhikkhus present protest, such an act is performed by an incomplete congregation.
'If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattidutiya act as many Bhikkhus as are entitled to vote, are present, if the khanda of those who have to declare their khanda has been conveyed, but if the Bhikkhus present protest, such an act is performed by an incomplete congregation.
i See II, 23.
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