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MAHAVAGGA.
II, 33.
(among the fraternity), they hold Uposatha and recite the Pâtimokkha, &c.''
End of the fifteen cases of the Bhikkhus risking a schism.
End of the seventy-five cases.
33.
'In case, O Bhikkhus, there assemble in a certain residence on the day of Uposatha a number of resident Bhikkhus, four or more; they know that other resident Bhikkhus are about to enter the boundary. They know that other resident Bhikkhus have entered within the boundary. They see other resident Bhikkhus who are about to enter, &c., who have entered within the boundary. They hear that other resident Bhikkhus are about to enter, &c., have entered within the boundary.'
Thus a hundred and seventy-five systems of triads are produced which refer to resident and resident
1 The decisions as in chap. 29; only read instead of 'dukkata offence,' 'thullakkaya offence' (grave sin).
2 Five times fifteen cases, in chaps. 28-32.
* Remarks like this, which indicate the rules for supplying abbreviated passages, do not belong, strictly speaking, to the text of the Vinaya itself, but form a posterior addition, as is shown also by grammatical peculiarities. In chaps. 28-32 we have seventy-five cases, or twenty-five triads; all of these triads contain the words: 'They know that there are other resident Bhikkhus absent.' By successively varying these words six times, as is indicated in chap. 33, we obtain a hundred and seventy-five triads.
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