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1, 4, 1. THE MINOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS.
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1. There are three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagga niya-kamma is characterised, it is a proceeding in accordance with the Dhamma, a proceeding in accordance with the Vinaya, and is easy to be settled ; (that is to say), when it has been carried out in a full assembly of qualified persons, according to law, and in the presence of the litigant parties—when it has been carried out after the accused person has been heard—when it has been carried out after the accused person has confessed himself guilty. A Tagga niya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised by these three things is in accordance with the Dhamma, and in accordance with the Vinaya, and is easy to be settled.' .
[And in a similar way the opposite of each of the twelve propositions in the last section is here laid down.] Here end the twelve cases of a proceeding (Kamma)
which is according to law.
1.'There are three things, Bhikkhus, which, when they characterise a Bhikkhu, the Samgha, if it likes, should carry out the Tagganiya-kamma against him; (that is to say), when he is a maker of strife, quarrelsome, a maker of disputes, given to idle talk, and a raiser of legal questions in the Samgha _ when he is dull, stupid, full of faults, and devoid of merit—when he is living in lay society, in unlawful
· This refers to the Introductory Story, I, 1, 1.
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