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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IX, 3, 8.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA.
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If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattikatuttha act, &c. 1
Such acts, O Bhikkhus, are called acts performed by incomplete congregations.
6. 'And which, O Bhikkhus, is an act of a complete 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 (to the assembly), and if the Bhikkhus present do not protest, such an act is performed by a complete congregation.
'If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattikatuttha act (&c., as in last section).
'Such acts,'o Bhikkhus, are called acts performed by complete congregations.
7. 'And which, O Bhikkhus, is a seemingly lawful act performed by an incomplete congregation ?
If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattidutiya act the kammavâkâ is proclaimed first and the ñatti is proposed afterwards, if not all Bhikkhus, as many as are entitled to vote, are present, &c.?
8. 'And which, o Bhikkhus, is a seemingly lawful act performed by a complete congregation ?
If, O Bhikkhus, at a ñattidutiya act the kammavâkâ is proclaimed first and the ñatti is proposed afterwards, if as many Bhikkhus as are entitled to vote, are present, &c.3
1 The identical three cases given before with regard to the ñattidutiya act are repeated here.
? The six cases given in this paragraph, of which three refer to nattidutiya acts and three to najtikatuttha acts, differ from those specified in $5 only by the statement added in each of these cases regarding the inverted order of natti and kammavå kâ.
* This paragraph stands precisely in the same relation to $ 6 in which the preceding one stands to $ 5.
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