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1. So the Samgha carried out the Patisâraniyakamma against Sudhamma the Bhikkhu, saying, 'You are to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder. And after he had been subjected by the Samgha to the Patisâraniya-kamma, though he went to Makkhikâsanda, he was unable, being greatly troubled in his mind, to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder, but returned again even to Sâvatthi.
Then the Bhikkhus asked him, 'Has Kitta the householder been induced by you to give you his pardon?'
'Indeed, though I went to Makkhikâsanda, I was unable, being greatly troubled in my mind, to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder.'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
2. 'Let, then, the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, appoint a companion messenger to Sudhamma the Bhikkhu, to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder.
'Now thus, O Bhikkhu, should the companion messenger be appointed. In the first place the Bhikkhu (who is to be sent) is to be asked (whether he is willing to go). After he has been asked, let some discreet and able Bhikkhu lay the matter before the Samgha, as follows:
"Let the venerable Samgha hear me. If the . time seems meet to the venerable Samgha, let the Samgha appoint such and such a Bhikkhu as a companion messenger to Sudhamma the Bhikkhu, to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder. This is the motion (atti).
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