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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PROBATION AND PENANCE.
II, 4, I.
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the duties (i. e. of a probationer)." Then also the probation is postponed.'
2. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were at Sâvatthi went away hither and thither, and the Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation were not able to carry out their probation correctly1.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to take upon yourselves again the probation (which had been postponed). Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to take it upon yourselves again. The Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: "I take my probation again upon myself." Then the probation is resumed. Or he is to say: "I take the duties (i. e. of a probationer) upon myself again." Then also is the probation resumed.'
Here end the duties encumbent on a probationer.
1. Now at that time Bhikkhus, who had rendered themselves liable to be thrown back to the commencement (of their probationary course), used to
1 The Samanta Pâsâdikâ here says, Evam vattam samâdiyitvâ parivutta-parivâsassa mânattam ganhato puna vatta-samâdâna-kikkam n'atthi samâdinna-vatto yeva hi esa. Tasmâssa khârattam mânattam dâtabbam, kinna-mânatto abbhetabbo, evam anâpattiko hutvâ suddhante pati//hito tisso sikkhâ pâretvå dukkhass' antam karissatîti. This is fully explained in the next Khandhaka.
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