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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IV, 17,7
THE PAVÂRANÂ CEREMONY.
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them say: "We have held our Pavâra nâ, friends, do you do, Sirs, as you think fit."
4. 'If they succeed in this way, well and good; if they do not succeed, let a learned, competent, resident Bhikkhu proclaim the following ñatti before the resident · Bhikkhus: “Let the resident Bhikkhus hear me, Sirs. If you are ready, Sirs, let us now hold U posatha and recite the Pâtimokkha, and let us hold Pavâranâ on the next new-moon day." If, O Bhikkhus, the litigious, .... (&c., 1) Bhikkhus say to those Bhikkhus: “Well, friends, hold Pavâranâ with us now," let them reply: “You are not masters, friends, of our Pavâranâ; we will not hold Pavâranâ now."
5. 'If, O Bhikkhus, those litigious, ....(&c., § 1) Bhikkhus stay there till that new-moon day, let a learned, competent, resident Bhikkhu, ....1
6. 'If, O Bhikkhus, those litigious, .... (&c., § 1) Bhikkhus stay there still till that full-moon day, those Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, ought to hold Pavâranâ all of them, no matter whether they like it or not, on the next full-moon day, on the day of the kom udi kâtumâsini?
7. If those Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, hold Pavâranâ, and a sick Bhikkhu inhibits the Pavâranâ of a healthy Bhikkhu, let them say (to the inhibiting Bhikkhu): “You are sick, Sir, and the Blessed One has said that a sick person cannot endure being questioned. Wait, friend, until you have recovered;
As in $ 4, down to the end of the paragraph; instead of, 'On the next new-moon day,' it is to be read here, 'On the next full-moon day
* See the note on III, 14, 11.
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