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MI, 36, 2.
PROBATION AND PENANCE.
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but some definite and some not definite, or some definite and some not definite and some concealed and some not concealed.]
Here end the nine principal cases (which serve as a basis for the variations in the following chapter) in which a Bhikkhu is not purified (by undergoing a
term of probation).
36. 1. [The same nine cases of the throwing back is carried by unlawful proceeding, though the Mânatta and the rehabilitation are by a lawful proceeding.)
2. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Samghâdisesa offences-definite, and not definite-of one designation, and of various designations-similar to each other, and dissimilarconnected with each other, and disconnected'. He asks the Samgha for an inclusive probation on account of those offences. The Samgha imposes upon him an additional probation on account of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number of Samghadisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. He asks the Samgha to throw him back on account
These offences must be understood to be offences committed while under probation, and concealed. See the note on chap. 35, $ 1.
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