Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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IX, 6, 9.
FORMAL ACTS OF THE SAMGHA..
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Vinaya, and in such case this Samgha trespasses against the law.'
7. Lord, if a complete congregation grants sativinaya to a Bhikkhu to whom sativinaya ought to be granted, and amalhavinaya to a Bhikkhu to whom amalhavinaya ought to be granted (&c., down to :) grants abbhâna to a Bhikkhu to whom abbhâna ought to be granted, and confers the u pasampadâ ordination on a person on whom the upasampadà ordination ought to be conferred,—is this act, Lord, performed lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya ?'
8. 'It is performed, Upåli, lawfully according to Dhamma and Vinaya (&c., down to :) and in such case this Samgha does not trespass against the law.'
9. And the Blessed One thus addressed the Bhikkhus: 'If a complete congregation, O Bhikkhus, grants to a Bhikkhu to whom sativinaya ought to be granted, an amalha vinaya, in such case, O Bhikkhus, this act is performed unlawfully against Dhamma and Vinaya, and in such case this Samgha trespasses against the law. If a complete congregation, O Bhikkhus, institutes against a Bhikkhu to whom sativinaya ought to be granted, the tassa pâpiyyasikâkamma (&c.?, down to :) grants to a person on whom the
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. In this paragraph all possible combinations of two different Samghakammas are formed in this way: first, sativinaya is combined with amülhavinaya and all the rest, down to upasampada ; then amalhavinaya with all terms from tassapàpiyyasika down to sativinaya, and so on; the whole series ends thus with the combinations of upasampadåraha with all terms from sativinaya down to abbhana.
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