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KULLAVAGGA.
I, 25, 1.
V. THE UKKHEPANIYA-KAMMAS (ACTS OF SUSPENSION)
for not acknowledging, and for not atoning for, an offence?
25.
1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was dwelling at Kosambi, in the Ghosita Årâma. And at that time the venerable Khanna’, when he had committed a fault, was not willing to acknowledge the fault. Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can the venerable Khanna act so ?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One.
Then the Blessed One on that occasion, and in that connection, after he had convened a meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha, asked the Bhikkhus:
'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that Khanna
1 There is no mention in the Pâtimokkha of any such proceeding. At the close of each of the four Pâtidesaniya Rules there is a form of confession to be observed. It would seem from the following chapters, which are nowhere expressly confined to these four cases, that a similar confession was expected after the commission of an offence against any of the Pâtimokkha Rules. In the closing words of the Samghâdisesa Rules, an older proceeding is mentioned, under which an offending Bhikkhu who has not confessed any breach of either of those thirteen Rules is to remain on probation for as many days as he has allowed to go by without confessing.
On K'hanna's character, see also below, IV, 14, 1, XI, 1, 12-14, and Maha-parinibbâna Sutta VI, 4.
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