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KULLAVAGGA.
III, 25, 2.
probation of one month for those two Samghâdisesa offences concealed for two months?.
2, 3. Now in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu have committed two Samghâdisesa offences, which he conceals for two months. And of one month he is aware, but of the other month he is not aware ....one month he recollects, but the other month he does not recollect .... one month he wittingly conceals, but the other month he unwittingly conceals.'
[This chapter is word for word the same as chapter 23, reading ‘month' for 'offence.]
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1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had committed numerous Samghâdisesa offences; but he was not aware of the degree of the offences, and was not aware of the duration of the times?; or he did not recollect the degree of the offences, and did not recollect the duration of the times; or he was uncertain as to the degree of the offences, and was uncertain as to the duration of the times.
He told the Bhikkhus, saying, 'I have committed, &c. ... but I am not aware, &c. ... I do not recollect, &c. ... I am uncertain, &c. . . . What now shall I do?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'Then let the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, impose upon that Bhikkhu a probation of complete purifi
1 This repetition of the last chapter is again only to afford a basis for the succeeding variations, as above, in chap. 23.
That these are plurals, and not singulars, is clear from $ 3, below.
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