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KULLAVAGGA.
II, 1, 1.
SECOND KHANDHAKA.
PROBATION AND PENANCE.
1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was staying at Sâvatthi, in the Getavana, Anathapindika's Grove. And at that time Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation used to accept reverence and service and salutation and respect from regular Bhikkhus; and to allow them to provide a seat, or a sleeping-place, or water for the feet, or a foot-stool, or a foot-towel for them; and to carry their bowl or their robe, and to shampoo them?
40a.
1 There are four principal kinds of probation: the first of which was required when the follower of another of the reforming sects was received into the Buddhist Order, and is described in Mahavagga I, 38. The other three, which follow on the commission of a Samghâdisesa offence, are more particularly described below in the third Khandhaka. The Pali names of these four are respectively apafikkhanna-parivâsa, patikkhanna-parivâsa, suddhanta-parivâsa, and samodhana-parivâsa.
No conclusion should be drawn against this statement from the passage above at I, 9, 1; though Seyyasaka's conduct, as there described, would not have rendered him liable to any one of these four principal probationary proceedings. For he is said to have been guilty of many offences (âpatti-bahulo). The accompanying enumeration must be taken, not as a description of those offences, but as additional to them. And the probation imposed upon him must have been for concealing one or more of the many offences not particularly specified.
* All these expressions recur above, I, 27, 1.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |