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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MAHÂVAGGA.
IV, 16, 4.
one inhibit the Pavarank of Bhikkhus who have already performed their Pavâranâ. He who does, commits a dukkata offence.
4. 'And thus, O Bhikkhus, (you may discern whether) the Pavâranâ is (duly) inhibited or not inhibited.
'In what cases is the Pavâranâ, O Bhikkhus, not inhibited? When Pavâranâ, O Bhikkhus, is pronounced, declared, and finished with the threefold formula, and if (a Bhikkhu then) inhibits the Pavâranâ (of another Bhikkhu), the Pavârana is not inhibited. When Pavâranâ, O Bhikkhus, is pronounced, declared, and finished with the twofold formula, with the onefold formula, by common declaration of all Bhikkhus who have kept Vassa together, and if (a Bhikkhu then) inhibits, .... (&c., as before). In these cases, O Bhikkhus, the Pavâranâ is not inhibited.
5. 'And in what cases, O Bhikkhus, is the Pavâranâ inhibited ? When Pavâranâ, O Bhikkhus, is pronounced, declared, but not finished with the threefold formula, and if (a Bhikkhu then) inhibits the Pavâranâ (of another Bhikkhu), the Pavâranâ is inhibited, .... (&c.2). In these cases, O Bhikkhus, the Pavâranâ is inhibited.
6. `In case, O Bhikkhus, one Bhikkhu, on the day of Pavâranâ, inhibits the Pavâranâ of another Bhikkhu : then if the other Bhikkhus know with regard to that (inhibiting) Bhikkhu : “ This vene
1 Correct in the Pâli text pariyositâya into apariyositâya.
? The paragraph is repeated with the phrases, ' With the twofold formula,' with the onefold formula,' and 'by common declaration of all the Bhikkhus who have kept Vassa together, respectively, instead of with the threefold formula.'
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