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MAHAVAGGA.
IX, 3, I.
the incompleteness (of the congregation). Such an act, &c.
'If, O Bhikkhus, an act is lawful and performed by a complete congregation-such an act, O Bhikkhus, is unobjectionable and valid on account of its lawfulness and of the completeness (of the congregation). Such an act, O Bhikkhus, ought to be performed, and such an act is allowed by me.
'Therefore, O Bhikkhus, you ought to train yourselves thus: "Lawful acts which are performed by complete congregations-such acts will we perform1."
3.
1. At that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus performed official acts in the following ways: they performed unlawful acts before an incomplete congregation (&c., as in chap. 2, § 1, down to :) they performed seemingly lawful acts before a complete congregation; they performed acts without a ñatti2 and with the proclamation (of the kammavâkâ2); they performed acts without a proclamation (of the kammavâkâ) and with the atti; they performed acts without a ñatti and without a proclamation (of the kammavâka); they performed acts contrary to the Dhamma; they performed acts contrary to the Vinaya; they performed acts contrary to the doctrine of the Teacher; and they performed acts against which (the Bhikkhus present) protested, which were unlawful, objectionable, and invalid.
Those Bhikkhus who were moderate, were annoyed,
A similar injunction is found at the close of chapter II, 14. 2 See I, 28, &c.
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