Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
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

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I, 38, 4.
'Then let a learned, competent Bhikkhu proclaim the following natti before the Samgha: "Let the Samgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. This person N. N., who has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, desires to receive the upasampadâ ordination in this doctrine and discipline. He asks the Samgha for a parivâsa of four months. If the Samgha is ready, let the Samgha impose on N. N., who has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, a parivâsa of four months. This is the natti.
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MAHAVAGGA.
4. "Let the Samgha, reverend Sirs, hear me. This person N. N., who has, &c. He asks the Samgha for a parivâsa of four months. The Samgha imposes on N. N., who has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, a parivâsa of four months. Let any one of the venerable brethren who is in favour of imposing a parivâsa of four months on N. N., who has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, be silent, and any one who is not in favour of it, speak. A parivâsa of four months has been imposed by the Samgha on N. N., who has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school. The Samgha is in favour of it, therefore it is silent. Thus I understand."
5. And this, O Bhikkhus, is the way in which a person that has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, succeeds or fails in satisfying (the Bhikkhus and obtaining upasampadâ when the probationtime is over).
'What is the way, O Bhikkhus, in which a person that has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, fails in satisfying (the Bhikkhus)?
'In case, O Bhikkhus, the person that has formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, enters the village
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