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PROBATION AND PENANCE.
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with shall he content himself. A Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation ought not, O Bhikkhus, to visit the families who support a regular Bhikkhu (by officiating, in order to do so, as the companion who precedes or follows that regular Bhikkhu)-he ought not to devote himself to a forest life-he ought not to devote himself to living on alms personally received!—he ought not to cause an alms to be brought out to him with the object of escaping an extension of his probationary term?, thinking, “ Let them not recognise me” (as one who has been placed under probation).
'A Bhikkhu who has been placed on probation ought, О Bhikkhus, to announce the fact of his having been so placed when he arrives at a residence as an incoming Bhikkhu-he ought to announce the fact to an incoming Bhikkhu-he ought to announce the fact at an Uposatha meeting—he ought to announce the fact at a Pavâranå meeting—and, if he be sick, he ought to announce the fact at such meetings by means of a messenger".
or almost always, denotes the dwelling-place, the private apartment, of a single Bhikkhu.
1 That is, to refrain from salâka-bhatta, &c.
* The Samanta Pâsâdikâ says, Tappakkayâ 'ti nihatabhatto hutvä vihåren' eva nisîditva bhuñganto vattiyo ganayissämi gak. khato me bhikkha disvâ anârokentassa rattikkhedo (cap. 2) siyâ 'ti iminâ kâranena pinda pato na niharâpetabbo.
: Må mam gânims a 'ti mâ mam ekabhikkhu pi gânâtû 'ti ka iminâ agghäsayena vihâre sâmanerehi pakâpetvâ bhungitum labbhati. Gamam pindaya pavisitabbam eva. Gilânassa pana navakammam akariyupagghåyakikka dipasu (sic) tassa va vihâre yeva akkhitum valtati. Sake pi game anekasata bhikkhû vikaranti na sakkâ hoti âroketum gamakâvâsam gantvå sabhâgatthâne vasitum valtati.
• This paragraph, it will be seen, is omitted in three out of the four following cases, which are otherwise similar in every respect,
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