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IV, 17, 1.
THE PAVÂRANÂ CEREMONY.
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Bhikkhus) ought to reply: “The Blessed One, friend, has prescribed that they who hold Pavârana, ought to be pure as well as complete. If the deed and the (guilty) person are known to you, report it to us) now.”
26. 'If, O Bhikkhus, a deed becomes known before the Pavârana, and the (guilty) person afterwards (i. e. after the Pavârana), it is right to bring it forward (then) 1.
'If, O Bhikkhus, the (guilty) person becomes known before the Pavâranâ, and his deed afterwards, it is right to bring it forward (then).
'If, O Bhikkhus, the deed as well as the (guilty) person becomes known before the Pavâranâ, and if (a Bhikkhu)raises up that matter again after the Pavârana, he makes himself guilty of a pâkittiya offence for raising up (a matter that has been settled) 2.'
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1. At that time a number of Bhikkhus, companions and friends of each other, entered upon Vassa in a certain district of the Kosala country. In their neighbourhood other Bhikkhus, litigious, contentious, quarrelsome, disputatious persons, who used to raise questions before the Samgha, entered upon Vassa with the intention of inhibiting, on the Pavaranâ day, the Pavâra nâ of those Bhikkhus when
1. Because it had not been possible to decide the matter at the Pavarana” (Buddhaghosa).
2 See the 63rd Pâkittiya rule.
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