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IV, 3.
instructs him, saying, 'This is the Dhamma, this the Vinaya, this the teaching of the Master. Accept this, and approve this.' If the dispute should be thus settled, it is settled contrary to the Dhamma, and with a mere counterfeit of the Vinaya rule of procedure (that cases of dispute must be settled before a duly constituted meeting of the Samgha, and in the presence of the accused person)1.
[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Samgha, who speak according to the right;-or if the many or the Samgha who speak not according to the right instruct the one, or the many, or the Samgha who speak according to the right;-then the dispute is settled contrary to the Dhamma (&c., as before).]
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
End of the nine cases in which the wrong side decides.
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[This chapter is the contrary of the last; the cases put being those in which the three last members of
1 Sammukhâ-vinaya - patirûpakena. The rule of procedure, called Sammukhâ-vinaya, hereafter rendered 'Proceeding in Presence,' is one of the seven modes of settling disputes already referred to in the closing chapter of the Pâtimokkha ("Vinaya Texts,' vol. i, p. 68), and is more fully described below in Kullavagga IV, 14, 16, and following sections.
It will be seen below, from §§ IV, 14, 27-30, that it is involved in, or rather is supposed to accompany, each of the other Proceedings mentioned in this chapter.
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